1870.] A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology. 305 



become obsolete on the posterior vent. Wing 3f " ; tail about 3£" ; 

 bill at front f", strongly hooked at the tip, from gape Iff-*; tarsus 

 1 \" ; bill black, feet white. 



The species is recorded from Java and Sumatra, and seems to be 

 very rare in the Malay Peninsula ; it is not known to extend far- 

 ther northwards. 



48. Etjpetes macrocercus, T e m m. 

 Bly th, Oat. p. 158. 



Wing 4" ; tail 5"; bill at front nearly 1", from gape l T y ; tarsus 

 If" ; — not common in the Wellesley Province. 



Strickland (Ann. and Mag. N. H., XIX, 1847, p. 132) 

 suggests to class this remarkable bird in the Timaliist^, but con- 

 sidering the general structure of this and allied species, they 

 undoubtely exhibit a greater relation to Hydrobata and Henicurus 

 then to any Timalia ; unfortunately I could not obtain any infor- 

 mation about the habits of the present species ; the coloration 

 exactly agrees with Temminck's figure. 



Fam. PITTIDJE. 



49. Pitta granatin a, T e m m. 



Planches Col. 506. — P. coccinea, Ey t o n, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1839, p. 104, 



An apparently young bird from the Wellesley Province has the 

 front sides of head sooty brown, head above and occiput crimson, 

 posterior neck blackish brown, rest of upper plumage uniform deep 

 blue, quills with their coverts and the inner webs of the other 

 wing feathers brownish black, chin and throat of the same colour, 

 breast and vent brown, on the former most of the feathers are blue 

 and tipped with reddish, the red increasing towards the vent but 

 not predominating, except at the sides ; under tail coverts red ; 

 wing 3£" ; tail 1J" ; bill at front \Y ; from gape 1"; tarsus 1£". 

 The specimen wants the bright lilac color at the sides of the head 

 and on the wings, which is to all appearance a sign of maturity. 

 Malacca specimens in full plumage appear perfectly to agree with 

 Temminck's granatina with which B 1 y t h (Oat. p. 157) first 

 identified them, but subsequently he stated (p. 326) that the name 

 granatina has been restricted to the Borneo bird, and that the 



