PITTA BAUDI. 
BAUDS PITER 
Pitta baudii, Müll. & Schleg. Verh. Natuur. Geschied. Ned. overz. Bezitt., Zool. Pitta, 1839-44, pp. 10, 15, 
20, pl. 2.—Gray, Сеп. B. vol. 1. 1846, p. 213.—Low, Sarawak, 1848, p. 410.—Schleg. Handl. 
Dierk. vol. i. 1857, р. 253.—Id. Vog. Neder. Ind., Pitta, 1863, pp. 18, 35, pl. 5. figs. 1, 2 
(Borneo).—Id. Mus. P.-Bas, Pitta, 1863, р. 5; 1874, р. 9 (Borneo).—Salvad. Ucc. Born. 1874, 
р. 243.— Gould, B. Asia, vol. v. pl. 72.—Guillem. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 414 (Silam, Borneo). 
Pitta baudi, Wall. Ibis, 1864, p. 107.—Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 798; 1890, p. 281.— Nicholson, 
Ibis, 1883, p. 88.—Sclat. Cat. B. vol. xiv. 1888, p. 444.— Everett, Journ. Str. B. Roy. Asiat. Soc, 
no. 20, 1889, p. 149.— Elliot, Auk, 1890, p. 356. 
Brachyurus baudi, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. i. 1850, p. 255. 
Iridipitta baudi, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. 1854, p. 7. no. 192. 
Brachyurus ( Iridipitta) baudii, Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 1863, pl. xxii. 
Brachyurus baudi, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 419. 
Eucichla baudi, Whitehead, Ibis, 1893, p. 507. 
HanrrAT.—Sarawak (Everett); N.W. Borneo (Low); Benkoka (Whitehead) ; Sandakan (Preyer); Silam 
(Guillemard) ; Sapagaya River, N.E. Borneo (Adams); Borneo. 
Male. Top of head and nuchal crest pale blue, with a greenish tinge on the forehead, and purplish on the 
occiput ; lores, sides of head, and nape black, the latter in some specimens edged with dark shining 
purple; back crimson; wings brownish-black ; greater coverts and some of the secondaries edged 
with pure white, forming bars across the wings. Primaries brownish-black, under wing-coverts black. 
Upper tail-coverts purple, shading into pale blue. Tail blue. Throat and sides of neck, beneath the 
black of the cheeks, pure white; breast black ; rest of underparts dark Prussian blue, glossed with rich 
shining purple; thighs brownish-black edged with white. Beneath the red feathers on the rump is а 
bunch of brownish-black feathers with the apical half white, this hue showing on either side of the 
upper tail-coverts as a white bar, possibly, in some examples, extending across the rump. Bill black; 
feet and tarsi flesh-colour. Length 6 inches, wing 33, tail 13. 
Female. Top of head rufous, darkest on the forehead, and gradually merging into the dull crimson of the 
back and rump. Lores and circle around the eye black. Wings brownish-black ; coverts and some 
of the secondaries edged with white. Tail blue. Throat rosy white; entire underparts rufous buff. 
Bill black ; feet and legs flesh-colour. 
Young. “In the young bird the chin and upper throat are whiter than in the adult male, and the rest of 
the under surface rufescent, darker on the breast, and with some dark blue feathers on the median 
line and on the flanks; above, the head and паре are light brown, and the uropygium dark grey. 
The feathers of the back and scapulars are umber-brown, with the base grey. A few red feathers of the 
new moult are seen appearing irregularly here and there, especially in the scapular region." ( Guille- 
таға, l. c.) 
This species, in the vividness and depth of its strongly contrasted colours, must be 
regarded as one of the most striking and beautiful of the Pittidæ. It is a native of Borneo, 
that great island whence come so many unusual and lovely ornithological forms. At one 
time, especially when I was engaged upon a Monograph of this Family, completed in 
1863, Baud’s Pitta was one of the very rarest members of the group, and although now 
specimens are to be seen in the more important of the great Museums, both in Europe 
and America, yet it cannot be considered as in any way common. At that period the 
