Birds of Celebes; Pittidae. 
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Immature. Like tke adult, but the throat and jugulum black varied with a few white or pale 
fawn-feathers, chin mostly cinnamon; a few pale fawn feathers on the abdomen; 
shoulder greenish tawny-olive; mantle varied with greenish olive; a small speculum- 
formed by a white spot on the inner web of the 3''^ quill and on the outer web of 
the 4*^, just present also on the inner web. (Imm. co-type, Kabruang, 7. XI. 94; 
Xat. Coll. — 0 13175.) 
Distribution. Talaut — Karkellang, Kabruang and Salibabu (Xat. Coll, in Dresd. and Tring 
Museums). 
The type and co-types of this species were obtained by native hunters sent 
out on behalf of the Dresden Museum; the species must be rather plentiful, six 
specimens being obtained in Kabruang and five in Salibabu. This was at the 
end of October and beginning of November, when the birds were moulting. Two 
large series were obtained in 1894 and 1896 in the larger island of Karkellang. 
P. inspeculata is the only known Ked Pitta in which the two specula on 
the wing are absent. From Pitta celehensis it differs by its back being blue, not 
green, by its wanting the blue vertical stripe, and rather broad black bar on 
the breast. It is most like P. cyanonota of Ternate and Guebeh in colour, but 
has the head darker chestnut, the blue of the back more intense , a cervical 
collar of brighter China-blue, not seen in cyanonota^ the throat darker and the 
jugulum black ; there is an entire absence or slight indication only of a black band 
below the blue pectoral collar. In respect of the blue cervical collar it agrees 
with P. caeruleitorques of Sangi and P. erythrogaster and propinqua of the Philip- 
pines, but is easily recognisable from the two last by its entirely blue upper 
surface and pectoral collar, and from caeruleitorques by its darker head, blue 
upper surface, blue sides, as well as middle, of the pectoral collar, and by 
the reduction or absence of the black band below it. 
Pitta inspeculata is perhaps the most interesting member of the Red Pittas 
in virtue of the disappearance of the two white specula — on the primaries 
and against the carpal edge. An examination of the speculum on the primaries 
of the Red Pittas brings to light some interesting facts. We give a table show- 
ing the variation of the quill-specula of all the Red Pittas in the Dresden 
Museum at the time of writing (July 1894): 
Species 
1. P. mackloti ad. 
2. P. mackloti Q ad. 
3. P. mackloti Q ad. 
4. P. mackloti ad. 
5. P. mackloti (T ad. 
6. P. mackloti ad. 
7. P. mackloti ad. 
8. P. mackloti § ad. 
9. P. mackloti § ad. 
Specimen 
Distribution 
2ndp, 
3rap. 
4thp. 
5tbP. 
Remarks 
out. 1 inn, 
■web 
out. 1 inn. 
web 
out|inn. 
web 
out. 1 inn. 
web 
Hr. 13306 
N. Guinea 
* 
4c 
4c 
4c 
4c 
Xr.l890 
X. Guinea 
4c 
4c 
4c 
4c 
Xr.l891 
X. Guinea 
4c 
4c 
4c 
Just seen on 5^^ inner. 
Xr.l893 
Jobi . . 
* 
4c 
4c 
4c 
4c 
Just seen on 3^^ outer. 
Xr.l896 
X. Guinea 
4c 
4c 
4c 
4c 
Indicated on 6^^ outer. 
0 1417 
X. Guinea 
* 
4c 
4c 
Just seen on 5*^. 
0 1431 
Jobi . . 
4c 
4c 
4c 
4c 
0 1426 
X. Guinea 
4c 
4c 
4c 
4c 
4c 
Large. 
C 1414 
X. Guinea 
4c 
4c 
4c 
4c 
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