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CATALOGUE. 
Pitta gigas, Temm., PI. Col. 217. 
The Cserulean Pitta. 
A. ^ and Drawings, S ? • Sumatra. Presented by Sir 
T. S. Raffles. 
245. PITTA NIPALENSIS, Hodgs, Sp. 
Paludicola nipalensis, Hodgs. ^ Journ. A. S. JBeng. VI. 
p. 103. 
Pitta nipalensis, G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. p. 214. 
Hodgs., Cat. B. Nep. p. 78. Bhjtli, Cat. B. Mus. A. 
S. Beng. p. 156. Gould, Birds of Asia, t. 2. 
Brachyurus nipalensis, Blytli, Journ. A. S. Beng. XVI. 
p. 153. Banap., C. G. Av. p. 253. 
Heleornis nipalensis, Hodgs. Gray, Zool. Misc. (1844), 
p. 83. 
Pitta nuchalis, BlytJi, Journ. A. S. Beng. XI. p. 188 ; 
XII. p. 961. 
The Nepal Pitta, Gray. 
Stimta, Nepal, Hodgs. 
A. Darjeeling. From Pearson's Collection. 
b. c. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., June, 
1853. 
" These birds never quit the forests, and usually adhere to those 
parts of them which abound in thick low brushwood. They seldom 
perch save at night, and then only on low bushes. They feed 
principally in swamps and rills, upon hard insects proper to such 
sites. Berries and seeds they seldom or never touch, and the sand 
occasionally met with in their stomachs, is probably taken unin- 
tentionally. Their tongue and intestines resemble those of the 
thrushes proper, with only a considerable increase in the length of 
the intestinal canal, which is sometimes thirty inches long. They 
fly so badly and are so stupid, that I have seen them taken by a 
single man." — (Hodgs., Journ. A. S. Beng. VI. p. 103.) 
246. PITTA CYANEA, Blyth. 
Pitta cyanea, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. XII. p. 1008 ; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 157. G. B. Gray, 
Gen. of Birds, 1. p. 213, t. 55. Gould, Birds of 
Asia, t. 3. 
