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CATALOGUE. 
249. PITTA BENGALENSTS. Gmel. Sp. 
Corvus bracliyurus, var. y, beugalensis, Gmel., S. N. L. 
I. p. 376. 
Pitta bengalensis, Vieill. Steph., Gen. Zool. XIII. p. 
Bonap., a G. Av. p. 254. 
Turdus triostegus, Sparm., Mus. Carls, t. 84. 
Pitta triostegus, apiid Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Bene/. 
p. 157. 
Pitta abdominalis, Wagler. (Edivards, Birds, t. 324.) 
Pitta brachyura, apud Gould, Cent. t. 23. G. Sf H., III. 
Ind. Zool. II. t. 35,/ 2. Jerd., Madr. Journ. L. S. 
X.p. 251. Bo2/le, III Him. Bot. t. 7, f. 3. 
The Bengal Pitta. 
Nou-RUNG (' Nine Colours '), Hind., Jerd. 
Shum Shah, Beng., Blyth. 
A. B. Calcutta. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
C. D. Locality and Donor unknown. 
" Though by no means common, this bird is occasionally met with 
in gardens and topes in the Carnatic, as at Madras and Trichinopoly, 
during the cold w'eather only, I believe. It how^ever generally 
frequents high jungle, and is therefore more common on the west 
coast than in other parts of the Peninsula ; I have also seen it in 
Groomsoor. It feeds on the ground in small flocks, generally, but 
not unfrequently singly, and readily perches on being disturbed. 
In the few instances when I have obtained specimens of the Nou- 
rung, I have not found their food to consist of ants, but of other 
insects, chiefly coleopterous." — (Jerd., Madr. Journ. L. S. X. p. 251.) 
" I kept a bird of this species for some time alive, but can remark 
little more than that it progressed by hopping, and that it is a 
remarkably silent bird, though I am told that it frequently utters a 
screeching note in the wdld state." — (Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. 
XII. p. 960.) 
250. PITTA GRANATINA, Temm. 
Pitta granatina, Temm., PI. Col. 506. G. B. Gray, Gen. 
of Birds, I. ^.213. Bhjth, Journ. A. S. Beng. XVI. 
p. 153 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 157. Bonap., 
C. G. Av. p. 255. 
