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Birds of Celebes: Pittidae. 
Pitta caeruleitorques is intermediate between P. palliceps of Siao and 
P. erythrogaster of Mindanao and other Philippines, the former differing by its 
vertical stripe of pale blue, its greener back and absence of a blue collar above 
the mantle and of a black bar below the pectoral band, while P. erythrogaster 
has the pectoral band green, with only a small amount of blue in the middle 
of it and no black bar below, the blue and green tints of the upper surface 
much brighter, and the head above not uniform, but showing two dusky streaks 
on the sides of the crown. When Count Salvadori speaks of P. caeruleitorques 
and erythrogaster as the only two Eed Pittas with a blue, cervical collar, he is 
not strictly correct, since this character is sometimes well developed in P cele- 
bensis. It occurs again in the since described P. propinqua (if that species be 
really distinct from P. erythrogaster) and in P. inspeculata. 
Prof. W. Blasius points out that in the specimen obtained by Dr. Platen 
the speculum on the primaries is developed only on the and quills. This 
is also the case in the two adult examples in the Dresden Museum (and indeed 
the white is only seen on the inner web of the 3'''^ quill, but on both webs of 
the 4^^), but an immature specimen has white on the inner web of the 2*"^, on both 
webs of the and and a trace on the 5*^^. In P . celehensis ^ palliceps , erythro- 
gaster and propinqua it is seen on the inner web of the 2”^ and on both webs 
of the and 4*^, so that it appears certain that the speculum in P. caeruleitor- 
ques has undergone reduction. In the next article this matter is examined a 
little more fully. 
-f * 112. PITTA INSPECULATA M.& Wg. 
Talaut Red Pitta. 
Pitta inspeculata (IjM.. & Wg., J. f. O. 1894, 245, pi. HI; (2) iid., Ahh. Miis. Dresd. 1895, 
Nr. 9, p. 6; (III) Elliot, Mon. Pitt., pt. V, 1895, pi. 
“Angkaruii” or “Antarawuwung”, Kabruang, Sahbahu and Karkellang, Nat. Coll. 
Figures and descriptions. M. & Wg. J; Elliot III. 
Adult. Head and neck ferruginous chestnut, rather darker on the sides of crown and of 
forehead, washed with bluish grey on middle of forehead, orbital region and cheeks; 
upper surface China-blue, a brighter fringe bordering the chestnut of the hind 
neck; hastard-wing and primaries black, the inner primaries washed externally 
with blue, no speculum; chin and throat dusky hrown, forming into hlack upon the 
jugulum; pectoral collar China- blue all round, continuous with the blue of the 
mantle; remaining under parts deep scarlet; the sides bordering the wing blue; 
under wing-coverts slaty black washed with blue; longest under tail-coverts 
blue; quills and tail below shining black. (Type — ad. Kabruang, 7. XI. 93: 
Nat. Coll. — C 13174.) 
The type is without any sign of a white speculum on either the primaries or 
against the metacarpal edge, though in a few other fully coloured specimens a small 
white spot or spots may be found on searching for such on the fourth primaries and 
near the metacarpal edge ; a narrow black bar below the pectoral blue is also some- 
times present. 
