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CATALOGUE. 
the sides ; throat, breast, belly, under tail-coverts, and superciliary 
streak whitish ; the feathers on the breast and sides fringed with 
brown ; bill dark horn ; legs paler. Length 4:^ in., of wing 2^ in., 
tail If in., bill to gape f in., and tarse 1 in. 
Genus pNOEPYGA, Hodgs. {p. 180). 
648. PNOEPYGA LONGICAUDATA, Moore. 
Pnoepyga longicaudata, Moore, P. Z. S. (1854), p. 
A. Afghanistan. From Griffith's Collection. 
JP. longicaudata. Colour of the upper parts deep olive-brown, the 
feathers slightly margined vdth black, and having blackish shafts; 
wings and tail inclined to ferruginous-brown ; upper tail-coverts 
long ; throat whitish ; breast and sides of abdomen pale dusky fer- 
ruginous, the feathers having pale centres and blackish margins ; 
middle of lower part of breast and abdomen white ; flanks the same 
as the back ; vent and under tail-coverts dark ferruginous ; bill dark 
brown, legs paler. Length 4^ in., of wing 2 in., the tail is rounded, 
the central feathers being 2i in. long, and the outer 1^ in., bill to 
front (through the feathers) |- in., to gape in., and tarse in. 
Genus Pitta, Vieill. (p. 181). 
649. PITTA BOSCEII, Muller et Schlegel. 
Pitta Boschii, Mull, et ScM., Verh. Nat. Gesch. Ned. 
Ind. Ad. pp. 5, 16, t. 1. G. B. Gray, Gen. of 
Birds, I. p. 213. 
Pitta elegans, {nec. Temm.) Less., Vog. de la Bon. Ois. 
t. 3. 
Pitta elegans, (Temm.) apud Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 256. 
Pitta affinis, apud Baffies, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 
p. 301. 
SiNTAE, Sumatra, Baffles. 
A. B. C. c? ? . Malacca. Presented by Dr. Cantor, 1854. 
d. Drawing. Sumatra. From Sir T. S. Raffles's 
Collection. 
e. Drawing. From Parry's Collection. 
650. PITTA A VENSIS, J. E. Gray Sp. 
Turdus Avensis, J. E. Gray, Griff. Cuv. An. Kingd, Av. 
I. t. p. 530. 
Pitta Avensis, G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. p. 214. 
