more to stay, he went off of his own accord one evening to sleep in a little hut in 
the forest some miles off, in order to have a last try for it at daybreak, when many 
birds come out to feed, and are very intent on their morning meal. The next evening 
he brought me home two specimens, one with its head blown completely off, and 
otherwise too much injured to preserve, the other in very good order, and which I at 
once saw to be а new species, very like the Pitta celebensis, but ornamented with a 
square patch of bright red on the nape of the neck.” 
This is the bird represented in the Plate. 
Пе Vis, J. c., procured this species at Exton Junction, British New Guinea, at a height 
of 1200 feet. The distribution, therefore, is a very extraordinary one, as the distance 
from Bouru to this portion of New Guinea is great, with many islands lying between. 
A satisfactory explanation is difficult to find of this dispersion. | 
Nothing is known of the economy or habits of this species. 
