PITTA SORDIDA. 
BLACK-HEADED PITTA. 
Merula viridis atricapilla moluccensis, Briss. Orn. vol. ii. 1760, р. 319, fig. 2. 
Merle des Philippines, Buff. Plan. Enlum. no. 89. 
Brève des Philippines, Buff. Nat. Hist. Ois. 1770-86, vol. ñi. p. 412.—Vieill. Ency. Meth. vol. ii. 1791, 
p. 686.—Le Vaill. Ois. Parad. vol. i. 1806, p. 106.—Cuv. Règn. Anim. 1829, p. 373 (note). 
Turdus sordidus, P. L. S. Müller, Natursyst. Suppl. 1776, p. 143. no. 51.—Cass. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phil. 1864, p. 250. 
Turdus brevicauda, Bodd. Tab. Plan. Enlum. 1783, p. 6. 
Corvus brachyurus, var. philippensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1788, vol. ii. p. 375. 
Citta melanocephala, Wagl. Syst. Av., Corvus, 1827, no. 14. 
Pitta atricapilla, Less. Trait. Ornith. 1831, p. 394. sp. 7.—Id. Compl. Buff. vol. ii. 1838, p. 501.—Temm. . 
Plan. Col. Tab. МӨ. 1832, p. 16.—Müll. € Schleg. Verh. Natuur. Geschied. Ned. Ind. overz. 
Bezitt., Zool. Pitta, 1839-44, pp. 8, 19, 20 (Borneo).—Gray, Gen. B. vol. i. 1846, p. 214.—Low, 
Sarawak, 1848, p. 410.—Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co. vol. i. 1854, p. 399 (Borneo).— 
Schleg. Handl. Dierk. vol. i. 1857, p. 254.—Id. Vog. Ned. Ind., Pitta, 1863, pp. 6; 31, pl. ii. 
figs. 2, 3 (Borneo).—Id. Mus. Pays-B., Pitta, 1863, p. 3; 1874, p. 5 (Borneo).—Pelz. Nov. 
Reis., Vög. 1865, pp. 70, 161.—Gould, B. Asia, vol. v. pl. 76.—Sclat. Cat. B. 1888, vol. xiv. 
p. 438 (Philippines). 
Pitta macrorhyncha, Gray, Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 3. 
Pitta philippensis, Müll. & Schleg. Verh. Natuur. Geschied. Ned. Ind. overz. Bezitt., Zool. 1839-44, Pitta, 
p. 19. no. 22.—Schleg. Mus. Pays-B., Pitta, 1863, p. 2 (Philippines) ; 1874, p. 5 (Borneo, Grand 
Sanghir). x 
Pitta brevicauda, Gray, Gen. B. 1846, vol. i. p. 214. 
Brachyurus atricapillus, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. i. 1850, p. 256. sp. 25 (Philippines). 
Brachyurus mülleri, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. 1. 1850, р. 256. sp. 23 (Celebes). 
Melanopitta mulleri, Bon. Consp. Vol. Anis. 1854, p. 7. no. 196. 
Melanopitta atricapilla, Bon. Consp. Vol. Anis. 1854, p. 7. no. 198. 
Coloburis muelleri, Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. pt. ii. 1859-60, p. 4 (Amboina ?). 
Coloburis brevicauda, Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. pt. ii. 1859-60, p. 5 (Timor ?). 
Pitta leucoptera, Elliot, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1861, p. 153, juv. 
Pitta muelleri, Sclat. Proc, Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 215.— Wall. Ibis, 1864, p. 106.—Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 263.— 
Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 346 (Labuan) ; 1881, p. 798 (Borneo).—Id. Ibis, 1889, p. 443 
(Borneo); 1890, p. 281.—Salvad. Ornit. Papuas. 1881, vol. ii. p. 403.— Nicholson, Ibis, 1882, 
p. 63 (Sumatra); 1883, p. 88 (Borneo).—Guillem. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 413 (Silam, Borneo).— 
Sclat. Cat. B. vol. xiv. 1888, p. 439 (Borneo, Sumatra, and Banka). | 
Brachyurus ( Melanopitta) atricapillus, Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 1863, pl. xxv. (Philippines). 
Brachyurus ( Melanopitta) mulleri, Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 1863, pl. xxvi. (Borneo). 
Pitta atricapilla sanghirana, Schleg. Ned. Tijdsch. vol. iii. 1866, p. 190 (Sanghir). 
Brachyurus sordidus, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 419.—Sharpe, ‘Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. 1877, р. 331 
(Palawan and Basilan). 
Pitta sanghirana, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 411.—Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. ix. 1873, p. 188.—Salvad. Ann. 
Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. ix. 1876, p. 54.—Meyer, in Rowl. Ornith. Misc. vol. ii. 1877, p. 329, pl. Ixv. 
(Sanghir).—Id. Isis, 1884, p. 6.—Sclat. Cat. B. vol. xiv. 1888, p. 440 (Sanghir Islands).— Blas. 
Ornis, vol. iv. 1888, p. 596. 
Pitta mulleri, Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. viii. 1871, p. 62.—Salvad. Ucc. Born. 1874, p. 240.— Blas. Ornis, 
vol. iv. 1888, p. 599. 
Melanopitta muelleri, Wald. Ibis, 1872, p. 374 (Northeru Borneo). 
Brachyurus muelleri, Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 104 (Labuan).—Id. Ibis, 1877, p. 10 (Borneo). 
Melanopitta sordida, 'Tweedd. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 949 (Zamboanga).—Id. Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. ix. 
1873, pp. 187, 250 (Philippines).—Wardl. Ramsay, Tweedd. Mem. Append. 1888, p. 657. 
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