184. MERtJLID.^:. 



the lesser quill-feathers, are the same : on the chin is 

 a large pointed patch of black, which unites a broad 

 band on each side of the head, encircles the crown, 

 and again forms a pointed patch on theuipper part 

 of the neck: the crow^n is deep ferruginous, with a 

 narrow black stripe down the middle : the shoulders 

 and lesser wing^coverts are bright caerulean-blue, 

 having a silvery metallic lustre .not unlike the gloss 

 on silk ; and across the rump is a band of the same 

 colour : the upper tail-coverts are black, the tail itself 

 ■very short, the two middle feathers rather the shortest, 

 and all of them black tipped with olive-green : the 

 greater quills hardly exceed the others in length ; 

 they are black, with pale tips, and at the base of the 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth, is a small white spot : the sides 

 of the neck, the throat, and all the under parts are 

 buff-colour, except the vent, middle of the belly, and 

 under tail-coverts, which are of a beautiful red : in 

 the middle of the abdomen is a patch of black : the 

 beak is black, and the tarsi pale yellowish. 



Sp/4. Pi. cyanoptera. Temm. PL CoL 218. 



Pi. dorso scapulisque viridibus; uropygio tectricibusque alarum 

 cyaneis ; mails, occipite, collo postice, strigdque verticalinigris; 

 gula alba maotdd nigra ; ventre cr is so que ritfis. 



Pitta with the back and scapulars green j the rump and wing- 

 coverts blue ; the cheeks, occiput, neck behind, and stripe on 

 the crown, black j the throat white, with a black spot ; the 

 belly and vent rufous. 



Inhabits Java. Length seven inches : allied to 

 the last : the cheeks are black, which colour extends 

 to the occiput and to the hinder part of the neck ; 

 on the middle of the crown is also a broad stripe of 



