THE MALAYAN SCARLET PITTA. 
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Bill black ; iris deep brown ; legs and feet dark fleshy. 
Length 9 inches, tail 1*7^ wing 4*7^ tarsus 1*6, bill from gape 1*6. The 
female is probably about the same size. 
The Larger Blue-winged Pitta is no doubt distributed over the whole of 
Burmahj but it is a somewhat rare species as compared with the preceding. 
I procured two specimens in the Irrawaddy Delta near Pahpoon. Mr. Blyth 
mentions having received a large-billed variety of P. moluccensis from 
Arrakan, which was probably the present species ; and Mr. Davison met 
with it in Tenasserim at various places from Amherst southwards. 
It is known to occur in the Malay peninsula and in the island of Bangka. 
Its distribution is probably the same as that of P. moluccensis, with which 
species it has long been confounded. 
This Pitta is very likely a migratory bird in a great portion of Burmah ; 
but in the extreme south of Tenasserim it would appear to be^ like P. mo- 
luccensis, a resident species, for my men shot a specimen at Malewoon on 
the 12th of January. 
P. oreas, Swinhoe (Ibis^ 1864, p. 428)^ from Formosa^ which is iden- 
tical with P. hertce, Salvad. (Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1868_, p. 527) from Borneo, 
is closely allied to P. moluccensis and the present species. 
Genus EUCICHLA, EeicJi, 
388. EUCICHLA COCCINEA. 
THE MALAYAN SCARLET PITTA. 
Pitta coccinea, JEyton, P. Z. 8. 1839, p. 104 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 611 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 94. Brachyurus granatinus, Temm., Elliot, Mon. Pitt, pi. xv. ; 
id. Ibis, 1870, p. 417 (part.). 
Description. — Male and female. The forehead, for about a quarter of an 
inch or to a point well in front of the eye, black ; the lores, a streak over 
the eye and the sides of the head black ; the top and back of the head 
deep crimson, bordered on either side of the nape b}^ a streak of lavender- 
blue j the whole upper plumage purplish blue, most brilliant on the back 
and dull on the other parts and tail ; wing-feathers black, the outer edges 
and tips more or less tinged with blue ; lesser wing-coverts plain black ; 
the greater coverts black, all broadly tipped with glistening blue ; chin 
and throat ochraceous, the feathers all tipped with dark brov/n; the breast 
purple, each feather edged with crimson ; sides of the body, abdomen, 
vent and under tail-coverts crimson. 
A young bird shot by Mr. Davison had the legs, feet and claws pale 
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