CATALOGUE. 
899 
a. Drawing. Sumatra. From Sir T. S. Raffles's Col- 
lection. 
Fitta Avensis. Crown and nape bright brown ; rest of the upper 
parts, wings, tail, throat, and breast blackish ; before and behind the 
eye, base of lower mandible, chin, belly, vent, and lesser wing-coverts 
yellowish-white ; bill black ; legs reddish. Length about 6^ in., of 
wing 4 in., tail If in., bill to frontal plumes f in., to gape in., 
tarsus 1 in. The above description is from Sir T. S. Raffles's drawing. 
This bird has very much the appearance of T. interpres, Temm., 
PL Col. 458, also from Sumatra, but which is a well-marked species 
of the genus Geocichla. 
651. PITTA ATBICAPILLA, Cmier, 
Pitta atricapilla, Cuvier. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 256. 
Corvus philippensis, Gmel., S. JV. Z. I. p. 375. 
Pitta philippensis, Vieill. Mull, et Schl., Verh, Nat. 
Gesch. Ned. Ind. p. 19. 
Pitta melanocephala, Wagler. 
Pitta brevicaudata, (JBodd.) G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, 
I. p. 214. 
Pitta macrorhjrncha, J. B. Gray, Zool. Misc. (1832), 
p. 3. 
Merle des Philippines, Buff., Bl. JEnl. 89. 
The Black-headed Pitta, Gould. 
A. Borneo. Presented by John Gould, Esq., 1853. 
652. PITTA CUCULLATA, Hartlauh. 
Pitta cucullata, Hartl., Bev. Zool. (1843), 65. Strichl. 
Ann. N. K. (1844), p. 410, t. 20. G. B. Gray, 
Gen. of Birds, I. p. 213. Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. 
XYI. p. 153 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 157. 
Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 255. 
Pitta nigricollis, BlytJi, J. A. S. Beng. XII. p. 960. 
Pitta rhodogaster, Hodgs., J. A. S. Beng. XII. p. 961 
(young). 
Pitta malaccensis, apud Schlegel. 
Pitta Schlegeli, Bonaparte. 
A. B. Malacca. Presented by Dr. Cantor, 1854. 
