KUNGL. SV. VKT. AKADKM1ENS HANDLINGAR. HAND 56. VO 2. 85 



158. Pitta cyanoptera. Temm. — The Lesser Blue-winged Pitta. 



l'iiiti cyanoptera: Gyldenstolpe II; Gyldenstolpe III p. 172; Gairdner p. 39; Oustalet 1903 p. ni; Grant p. 95; 

 Bonhote p. 67: Robinson k Kloss p. -18; Robinson I p. 97; Robinson II p. 147: Gairdner p. 149. 



<£ lian Meh Xa u /a 1914. L=-175 mm.; W = 123 mm.; T 17 mm.; I! = 30,5 min.: Tar u 39 

 mm. — J 1 Pa Hing 9 /e 1914. L ^ 170 mm.; W 121,5 mm.; T = 45 mm.; I! 31,2 mm.; Tarsus :i7 

 mm. — Irides: brownish black. Bill: black. Legs: yellowish wbitc. 



The Lesser Blue-winged Pitta was rather rare in the localities visited by my Expe- 

 dition. 



It was only obtained in Northern Siam. Unlike the other Pittas this species does 

 not keep entirely to the ground and one male specimen was shot in a tree, to which I was 

 attracted by the melodious whistle of the bird. 



159. Eucichla gurneyi. Hume. — Gurney's Pitta. 



Eucichla gurneyi: Robinson & Kloss p. 49; Robiuson I p. 97. 



J\juv. Kob Lak Paa 8 /ia 1914. L = 188 mm.; W == 101 mm.; T = 42 mm.; B = 28 mm.; Tarsus == 37 

 mm. — Irides: brown. Bill: orange, brownisb above and at the tip. Legs: yellowish brown. 



During one of my excursions among the mountain chain separating Tenasserim and 

 Siam I flushed a Pitta from a very dense and almost impenetrable piece of jungle. I 

 succeeded in shooting the bird and it turned out to be a young bird presumably of this 

 species though it has a plumage rather different from that of the adult bird as seen by 

 the description given below. 



Description: Forehead, crown and nape dusky black with triangulär buffy tips to 

 the feathers; upper parts of the body and upper tail-coverts umber brown (nearest »Raw 

 umber». Ridgway, Plate III) and with broad dusky bases to the feathers; lores, cheeks 

 and ear-coverts black; chin dusky brown; throat white; breast and middle part of abdo- 

 men dusky brown with påle brownish tips to the feathers and with a few pure black 

 feathers mixed up among the other; on the sides of the lower breast there are a few pure 

 black feathers barred with yellow on their terminal half; sides of the body and flanks 

 pure yellow barred with black; primaries black with greyish- white tips, these being con- 

 fined to the outer webs; secondaries and wing-coverts dusky black, the ones as well as 

 the wing-coverts washed and tipped with umber brown of the same shade as that one of 

 the back; tail bright blue on the outer webs and black on the inner webs of all the 

 feathers except the central pair which is bright blue with only the base black. 



Fam. Eiirylfemidae. 



160. Calyptomena viridis. Raffl. — The Green Broadbill. 



Calyptomena viridis: Muller p. 393; Grant p. 96; Bonhote p. 67; Robinson & Kloss p. 50; Robinson I p. 96. 



$ Hat Sanuk 2G /i 1915. L = 185 mm.; W = 103 mm.; T = 58 mm.; B = 22 mm.; Tarsus = 20 mm. 

 — Irides: black. Bill: yellowish brown. Legs: greenish yellow. 



