PITOHUI. - PITTA. 
205 
griseiveiitris v. Pelzeln, Ornith. Brasil. 89. 167. [Brasilia. 
Gymnopithijs griseiventris Gray, Handl. Birds I. 302. 
leucaspis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858. 274. 
[Nova Granada. Amazonia. Peruvia. 
Myrmeciza leucaspis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854. 253. Tb. 70. 
Gymnopithys leucaspis Gray, Handl. Birds I. 302. 
leucophrys v. Tsciiudi, Fauna peruan. 176. Tf. 11. Fig. 2. =: Formicarius 
leucophrys. 
leucops Vieillot, Galerie Oiseaux Tb. 129. — Pithy s albifrons Cab. 
livida Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858. 274. = Dasycephala livida Gray. 
lunulata Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873. 276. = Formicarius poecilonotus. 
pectoralis Cabanis, Wiegm. Arch. 1847. XIII. 214. = Pithy s rufigula. 
riifigola [Guiana. 
Turdus rufigula Boddaert, Tabl. Pl. enlum. 644. Fig. 2. 
Turdus pectoralis Latham, Ind. Ornith. I. 151. 
Myiothera pectoralis Temminck, Tabl. niéth. 17. 
Myrmothera pectoralis Lesson, Traité Ornith. 396. 
Pithys pectoralis Cabanis, Wiegm. Arch. 1847. XIII. 214, 
Anoplops rufigtda Cabanis, Mus. Heine. II. 9. 
Pithys rufigularis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858. 273. 
Gymnopithys rufigula Gray, Handl. Birds I. 302. 
rufigularis Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. New York VII. 470. — Formicarius 
nudiceps. 
PITOHUI Lesson, Traité Ornith. 1831. 375. = Beetes Reiche. 
Bec long, triangulaire, k arête vive, crochue; à narines arrondies; k bords 
élargis, un peu dilatés. Queue médiocre, arrondie. 
kirrocephalus Lesson, Traité Ornith. 375. = Beetes cirrhocephalus Bonap. 
PITTA (Hypocnemidae). — Vieillot, Analyse 1816. 42. — Gray, Genera Birds 
J. 213. — Schlegel, Vogels nederl. Indie II. 1 ; Museum Pays-Bas Pitta 1863. 
— Elliot, Monograph Pitta. 
Synon.: Brachyunis Thunb. — Citta Wagl. — Myothera Cuv. — Paludicola, Heleornis 
Hodgs. — Hydrornis Blyth. — Eucichla Reichb. — Melanopitta, Gigantipitta, Eucycla, Iri- 
dipitta, Erythropitta Bonap — Phoenicocichla , Coloburis Cab. — Leucopitta, Cervinipitta, 
Piirpureipitta Elliot. 
Bill moderate J strong, broad at the base, with the culmen elevated at the 
base, straight ^ and with the apical part curved, and the sides compressed to the 
tip, which is slightly emarginated; the gonys long and ascending; the nostrils lateral 
and placed in a membranous groove, loith the frontal plumes projecting to the 
Oldening, ivhich is anterior, oblique and exposed. Wings rather short, imth the third 
and fourth quills equal and longest. Tail very short and nearly even. Tarsi very 
long, slender and broadly scutellated. Toes long, with the outer toe longer than 
the inner and united at the base, the hind toe very long; the claws moderate, 
curved, acute, that of the hind toe very long. — 35 Specc. 
abdominalis Gray, Genera Birds I. 213. = Pitta brachyura Gray. 
affinis Raffles, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1821. XIII. 301. — Pitta ele g ans Less. 
aiigoleiisis Vieillot, Diet. hist. nat. IV. 356. — Desmurs, Iconogr. Ornith. 
VIII. 3. Tb. 46. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Pitta 12. [Africa occid. 
Pitta pulih Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1842. X. 190. 
Brachyurus angolensis Elliot, Monogr. Pitta Tb. 5. 
arcuata Gould, Ann. mag. nat. hist. 1871. VII. 340. [Borneo, 
atricapilla Müller u. Schlegel, Verhdl. nederl. overz. Bez. 8. Tf. 2. Fig. 2. 8. 
— Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Pitta 3. — Gould, Birds Asia IV. Tb. 4. 
[Borneo. Amboina. Shangir, 
Merula viridis atricapilla moluccensis Brisson, Ornith. I. Tb. 32. Fig. 2. 
Brachyurus Mülleri Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 256. 
Melanopitta Mülleri Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. anis. 1. 
Coloburus Mülleri Cabanis, Mus. Heine. II. 4, 
