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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
lavender ; the bill black ; the gape and a spot at the base and tip of both 
mandibles orange-vermilion. 
Length 7 inches^ tail 1*6^ wing tarsus 1*5_, bill from gape 1"05. 
The Malayan Scarlet Pitta was obtained by Mr. Davison in Tenasserim 
at the foot of Nwalabo mountain. 
It has been obtained in Province Wellesley^ Malacca_, Johore and 
Singapore,, and it will probably be found throughout the whole Malay 
peninsula. 
The true E. granatina is found in Borneo ; it differs from the present 
species in having the black on the front of the head produced back to past 
the eyes. There is a very large series of these two Pittas in the British 
Museum^ and this distinction between the two species is very constant. 
The heads of the two birds are figured in the ' Ibis ' (I. c.) ; but it may be well 
to point out again in these pages that the names attached to the figures 
have been transposed, fig. 3 referring to E. granatina and fig. 4 to 
E. coccinea. 
389. EUCICHLA GURNEYI. 
GURNETS PITTA. 
Pitta gurneyi, Hume, S.F, iii. p. 296; pi. iii. ; Gould, Birds Asia, pt. xxix.; Hume 
8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 244; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 94. Eucichla gurneyi, Gould, 
Mon. Pitt. pi. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, front of the head, lores, cheeks, ear- 
coverts, a stripe over the eye continued to the back of the head as a collar, 
breast, belly, vent and under tail-coverts deep black ; top of the head and 
nape bright glistening blue, the feathers long and forming a crest ; chin 
and throat white ; sides of the neck and a broad collar on the upper breast 
bright yellow; sides of the body and of the breast yellow barred with 
black ; under wing-coverts black, a few of the 'feathers in the middle being 
white ; the upper plumage with the tertiaries and upper wing-coverts ligh 
chestnut-brown j primaries and their coverts black ; secondaries black, the 
first two or three margined with whitish near the tip, the others margined 
more broadly with the same colour as the back ; tail bright blue, the inner 
webs being nearly entirely black. 
The female differs greatly from the male j the forehead pale, the crown 
and nape bright, ferruginous ; cheeks, ear-coverts and a line along the neck 
black, a few of the feathers of the cheeks being pale orange-brown ; chin 
and throat dirty white ; remainder of the lower plumage yellow closely 
barred with black ; the yellow is most bright on the breast, and the bars 
are almost absent on the abdomen ; with the exception of the head, which 
