of this Pitta, says it never quits the forest, and frequents only thick low brushwood. 
It perches at night on low bushes, and feeds in swamps and rills, on the hard insects 
met with in such places. It rarely eats seeds or berries, and sand, which is occasionally 
met with in their stomachs, is probably taken unintentionally. The tongue and intestines 
resemble those of true Thrushes, but the intestinal canal is very long, sometimes di mueh 
as thirty inches in length. It flies badly, and is so stupid that he had known one to 
be caught by the hand; this, however, instead of being an evidence of stupidity on 
the part of the bird, is more probably a proof of its gentle, unsuspicious disposition. 
In the ‘Ibis, Z е., Mr. Wardlaw-Ramsay has described a specimen of a Pitta 
contained in the collection of the late Marquis of Tweeddale, and labelled from 
“Saigon, Cochin China," as Pitta soror. It resembles P. nepalensis, and is probably a 
young bird, differing in being “slightly smaller and more slender in the tarsi; the head 
above is strongly tinged with bluish green, which shades into dull blue on a fairly 
well-defined nuchal patch." Some of the dorsal feathers are of a blue colour, and the 
under surface paler. The locality is possibly inaceurately given, and the specimen 
may have come from the Malay Peninsula. I have, in view of the impossibility of 
deciding the specifie value of the example, placed it among the synonyms with a doubt. 
One Plate represents the male, the other the female and young, this last taken from 
specimens in the British Museum. 
