PITTA PALLICEPS. 
E | PALE-HEADED PITTA. 
| Pitta celebensis, Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, Pitta, 1874, p. 10 (partim, ex Siao). 
ES Pitta palliceps, Brügg. Abh. nat. Ver. Brem. vol. у. 1877, р. 64, pl. ñi. figs. 7, 8 (head and bill) (Sanghir).— 
53 . Meyer, іп Кох]. Orn. Misc. vol. ii. 1877, p. 327.—Id. Sitz. u. Abh. Ges. Isis, 1884, Abh. i. 
рр. 6, 18.— Blas. Ornis, vol. iv. 1888, pp. 602, 637, 641, 646.— Sclat. Cat. B. vol. xiv. 1888, p. 436 
(Siao).— Whitehead, Ibis, 1893, p. 505. 
| 1 Hasirat.—Siao, Sanghir Islands. 
Head and nape bright rusty brown, with blue stripe on sides of crown; a blue band at base of hind neck ; 
back and greater wing-coverts grass-green ; secondaries green, edged with blue ; primaries black; rump, 
| ] upper tail-coverts, and tail bright blue. Chin and upper part of throat washed with purple; lower part 
| L of throat bright rusty brown, bordered beneath with a jet-black band. Breast pale purplish-blue, 
bordered on the sides with grass-green, and with some black-tipped feathers on the lower edge. Entire 
underparts bright red. Bill black; feet and tarsi yellowish. 
E. | Young. Head, sides of neck, and nape pale yellowish-brown, streaked with dark brown, and dark brown 
stripes on either side of crown. Back and wings green, the secondaries margined with blue. Primaries 
black. Rump and tail blue. Throat pale yellowish-brown, streaked with dark brown, and some black 
markings at bottom of throat. Underparts pale brown, with margin of feathers dark brown, and a 
few blue feathers on the breast and red ones on flanks. Middle of abdomen and crissum pale red. 
Bill black, yellow at base; feet and tarsi pinkish. 
This bird was separated by Brüggemann, /. c., from the Celebes species. Schlegel, 
in the ‘Muséum des Pays-Bas, 1. c., speaks of his specimens of P celebensis, as he 
considers them, from Siao (he had five), as having the red on the head paler than Celebes 
examples, and that this colour often takes the place of the black on the erown. While 
noting the differences between the birds from the two localities, he failed to separate 
them specifically. Nothing is known of the habits or economy of this species. 
The figures in the Plate of adult and young, which are life-size, were drawn from 
specimens in the Museum at Leyden, Holland. 
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