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MERULIDJ^. 



blue : the quills and secondaries are black, tipped 

 with ash, and very slightly tinged with azure : the 

 second quills and the two following have a white spot 

 at the base : the flanks are tinged with greenish, 

 changing to red, which colour is spread of a brilliant 

 hue over the middle of the belly, the vent, and under 

 tail-coverts : the beak is black, with its tip brown : 

 the tarsi are brown. 



Sp. 6. Pi. gigas. Teimn. PI. Col. 217. 



Pi? dorsOi scapulis, uropygiOf cauddque azureis; alts cyaneis; 

 remigibiis nigris apice azureis ; vertice nucha semitorque collari 

 nigris ; guld albidd ; corpore infra cinereo-fusco. 



Pitta? with the back, scapulars, rump, and tail azure; the wings 

 blue : the quills black, with azure tips ; the crown, nape, and 

 half-collar on the neck black ; the throat whitish ; the body 

 l)eneath ashy-brown. 



Inhabits Sumatra. Length nine inches : the 

 back, the scapulars, the rump, and the tail, are bril- 

 liant azure-blue : the wings are the same, but less 

 brilliant : the quills are black, tipped with azure : 

 the top of the head, the nape, and a half-collar 

 ^t the base of the neck, are black : the forehead and 

 supercilia are ashy-brown : the throat is whitish : the 

 rest of the under parts is ashy-brown : the legs are 

 very long, and of an ashy-grey, or horn-colour. 



GENUS LXXXVni.— MYOPHONUS, Temminck. 



Rostrum longum, rectum, 

 valid um, robustum, forte ; 

 culmine lato ; mandihula 

 superio?' apice subito cur- 

 vata. 



Beak long, straight, stout, 

 robust, strong; the cul- 

 men broad ; the upper 

 mandihle abruptly curved 

 at its tip. 



