PITTA ОБЕ EBAFA, 
HOODED PITTA. 
Pitta cucullata, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1843, р. 65 (Malacca).—Blyth, Cat. В. Mus. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1849, 
р. 157.—Strickl. Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. xiii. 1844, р. 410 (Malacca).—Gray, Gen. В. vol. i. 1846, 
р. 213.—Id. Cat. Mamm. & Birds Nepal, 1863, р. 40.—Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, р. 274 
(Malacca).—Cass. U. S. Expl. Exped. ed. 2, 1858, р. 437, Ornith. (Singapore).—Schleg. Mus. 
Pays-B. 1863, p. 4; 1874, p. 5 (Malacca and Bangka).—Jerd. B. Ind. vol. i. 1862, p. 504.—Wall. 
Ibis, 1864, p. 106.—Dav. Str. Feath. vol. v. 1877, p. 457 (Amherst; nest and eggs).—Hume & 
Dav. Str. Feath. vol. vi. 1878, p. 243 (Tenasserim).—Hume, Str. Feath. vol. viii. 1879, р. 94.—Kelh. 
Ibis, 1881, p. 509 (Perak ).—Oates, Str. Feath. vol. x. 1882, p. 205 (Pegu).—Id. B. Brit. Burm. 
vol. i. 1883, p. 414.— Gould, B. Asia, vol. v. pl. 12.—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ser. T vo у: 
р. 597 (Bhamo).—Sclat. Cat. B. vol. xiv. 1888, p. 442. j 
Pitta malaccensis, Müll. & Schleg. Verh. Natuur. Geschied. Ned. overz. Bezitt., Zool. Pitta, 1839-44, p. 19. 
Pitta nigricollis, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xii. 1843, p. 960.—Id. Ibis, 1866, p. 374. 
Pitta rodogaster, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xii. 1843, p. 961.—Hodg. Gray, Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 83. 
Pitta coronata, Peale (nec Müll.), U. 5. Expl. Exped. ed. 1. 1848, Ornith. р. 89 (Singapore). 
Brachyurus cucullatus, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. 1. 1850, р. 255.—Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 420.—Hume, Str. 
Feath. vol. iii. 1875, p. 109 (Upper Pegu).— Blyth, B. Burm. 1875, p. 98. 
Melanopitta cucullata, Bon. Consp. Vol. Anis. 1854, p. 7. no. 194. | 
Coloburis cucullata, Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. part ii. 1859-60, p. 4 (Malacca). 
Brachyurus (Melanopitta) cucullatus, Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 1863, pl. xxviii. 
Pitta bangkana, Schleg. Vog. Ned. Ind. 1863, pp. 8, 31, pl. 2. fig. 5.—Id. Mus. Pays-B., Pitta, 1863, p. 3.— 
Wall. Ibis, 1864, p. 106 (Bangka). 
Pitta bankana, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 411. 
Brachyurus bankana, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, р. 420, pl. xii. fig. 2. 
HanrrAT.—Eastern Bengal, Assam, Sikhim, Nepal, Malay Peninsula, Island of Bangka. 
Entire top of head and nape chestnut ; sides of head, throat, and a narrow line beneath the chestnut nape 
black. Back, scapulars, large wing-coverts, tertiaries, and rump bright green ; lesser wing-coverts 
and upper tail-coverts silvery blue; secondaries black, with terminal half of outer webs green ; 
primaries black, with a large white patch on each feather. Breast and flanks greenish blue; а large 
black spot on the abdomen ; rest of abdomen and lower tail-coverts crimson. Tail black, tipped with 
blue, in some specimens the blue has a greenish gloss. Bill black, iris brown; feet and tarsi flesh- 
colour. Length 6°5 inches, tail 1:6, wing 4°5, tarsus 1'7. 
This 18 the only one of the green Pittas which possesses any other colour to relieve the 
jet-black which covers as with a hood the head and also the neck. I was inclined, 
when I first saw the type of Schlegel’s P. bangkana, to consider it as a distinct species, and 
in my review kept it separate from P. cucullata ; but it is now deemed to be the same, 
Schlegel himself baving placed it among the synonyms of the P. cucullata in his article 
on Pitta published in 1874. The type of Р. bangkana has the feathers on the 
forehead and crown tipped with dark chestnut, the full change to the chestnut crown 
not having yet taken place. 
In Tenasserim, Davison states that this Pitta is a seasonal visitor to the southern and 
central portions of the Province. It is rarer and more of a forest-bird than P. moluccensis. 
Its call is similar to the note of that species, but is not so often heard. It sits about in 
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