Young. Top of head and nape dark rufous-brown, feathers margined with blackish-brown ; sides of head 
PITIA MACELOLE 
MACKLOT'S PITTA. 
Pitta mackloti, Temm. Planch. Color. 1834, no. 547 (Bay of Lobo, New Guinea).—Müll. & Schleg. Verh. 
Natuur. Geschied. Ned. overz. Bezitt., Zool. Pitta, 1839-44, pp. 12, 18.—Gray, Gen. В. vol. 1. 
1846, p. 213.—Id. Cat. B. N. Guin. 1859, p. 26.—Sclat. Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. ii. 1858, p. 158. 
sp. 40.—Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, р. 99 (New Britain).—Schleg. Vog. Ned. Ind., Pitta, 1863, 
pp. 15, 33, pl. 4. fig. 3—Id. Mus. Pays-B., Pitta, 1863, р. 7 (Bay of Lobo, New Guinea); 1874, 
p. 10 (Wokam, Wanumbai, Aru Islands).—Id. Ned. Tijdsch. vol. iii. 1866, pp. 188, 189; 
vol. iv. 1871, p. 15.—Wallace, Ibis, 1864, pp. 102, 105, 106.—Finsch, Neu-Guin. 1865, p. 167.— 
Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 319 (Cape York).—Ramsay, Ibis, 1867, p. 416 (note, Cape 
York).—Id. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales, vol. ii. 1877, p. 187. no. 297; vol. ili. 1879, р. 277; 
vol. iv. 1880, p. 98. по. 99 (note, Cape York) ; vol. ix. 1884, p. 864.—Newton, Ibis, 1868, р. 348; 
1870, p. 119.—Gould, Suppl. В. Austr. 1869, pl. 29.—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. vil, 1875, 
p. 778; vol. x. 1877, p. 128; vol. xiv. 1879, p. 656; vol. xvi. 1880, p. 185. no. 9.—Id. Ibis, 
1879, р. 324.—Id. Orn. Papuas. vol. ii. 1881, р. 395.—D’Alb. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. x. 1877, 
pp. 11, 19.—Id. Ibis, 1877, p. 368 (Fly River).—D'Alb. & Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. xiv. 
1879, p. 88.—Rosenb. Malay. Arch. 1879, pp. 365, 395, 554.—Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 
vol. ix. 1884, p. 864 (Astrolabe Range).—Guillemard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 643 (Waigiou, 
Salwatti, Mysol).—Nehrkorn, Journ. für Ornith. 1885, p. 33 (eggs).—Sclat, Cat. B. vol. xiv. 1888, 
p. 436.— Whitehead, Ibis, 1893, p. 505. 
Brachyurus mackloti, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. i. 1850, р. 255.— Wallace, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 
vol. xx. 1857, р. 477.—Rosenb. Nat. Tijdsch. vol. xxv. 1863, р. 232. no. 97.—Id. Journ. für 
Ornith. 1864, p. 119.—Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 418. 
Erythropitta mackloti, Bonap. Consp. Voluc. Anisod. 1854, p. 7. 
Brachyurus (Erythropitta) mackloti, Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 1863, pl. xxi. 
Pitta digglesi, Krefft, Ibis, 1869, p. 350 (Cape York).—Salvad. Ann. Soc. Ital. Scien. Nat. vol, xii. 1869, 
р. 553.—Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 411. 
Pitta strenua, Gould, MS., Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 410 (New Guinea). 
Pitta nove-hibernie, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. iii. 1878, p. 73, juv. (New Ireland). 
Hasirat.—New Guinea: Lobo (S. Muller); at Dorey, Andai, Sorong, Hattam (von Rosenberg); Port 
Moresby (Broadbent, Goldie); Astrolabe Range (Ramsay); Fly River (D’Albertis) ; Waigiou 
(Bernstein, Beccari); Salwatti (Bruijn, Hoedt) ; Mysol (Hoedt) ; Jobi (Bruijn); Matabello, Grand 
Key (von Rosenberg); Wokam (Hoedt); Wanumbai (von Rosenberg); Aru Islands. New Britain 
(Brown, Finsch) ; New Ireland (Ramsay); Cape York, Australia (Ramsay, Krefft). 
Male. Front and top of head black in some specimens, rich rufous-brown in others; occiput and nape pale 
rusty-brown, sides of head brownish-black with a bluish lustre. (Some New Guinea specimens and 
also one from New Ireland have a vertical greyish-blue stripe on the head, and this is more or less 
appreciable in examples from other localities.) Back dark green; rump and tail dark blue. Greater 
wing-coverts dark blue; primaries and secondaries black, the latter edged with blue, and the former 
with a white speculum on the third, fourth, and fifth; a white spot also on shoulder. Chin rufous; 
lower part of throat and a patch extending on to the breast jet-black. Upper part of breast greyish- 
blue, bordered beneath by a black band. Edge of flanks dark green like the back. Entire rest of 
underparts deep scarlet. Bill black; feet and tarsi greyish-blue. Total length 7 inches, wing 4, tail 15. 
A specimen in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, obtained from Verreaux and 
labelled “ female ex Halmahera!”’ differs from the above described male from Waigiou, also in the same 
collection, by having the sides of the head and throat pale brown, and top of head rufous-brown. The 
line beneath the blue on the breast is very narrow and greenish-black, while the scarlet of the 
underparts is much paler. The locality given is probably an error. 
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