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Birds of Celebes: Pittidae. 
the habitat is very rightly queried by Sclater (Cat. B. XIV, 435). No collectors’ 
names are mentioned, and there can be little doubt that the labels are erroneous. 
Pitta rufiventris Cab. & Heine. The same remark applies to a young 
specimen of this bird labelled “Celebes” in the same collection (1. c. p. 434). 
^ ^ + * 113. PITTA FORSTENI Bp. 
Celebes Green Pitta. 
a. Pitta melanocephala (1) Mlill. & Schl. (nec Wagl.), Verb. Natuurk. Comm. 1839—44, Aves, 
Pitta, p. 19 (ex Forsten MS.); (2) Gray, Gen. B. I, 214 (1846); (III) Westerm., 
Bijdr. t. d. Dierk. 1854, I, 46, Pitta, pi. II; (4) ScliL, Hand! Dierk. 1857, 254; 
(V) id.. Yog. Xed. Ind. 1863, 5, 30, pi. H, f . 1 ; (6) id., Mus. P.-B. Pitta 1863, 4; 
(7) Finscli, Neu-Guinea 1865, 167; (8) Schl., Eev. Pitt. 1874, 9; (9) Rosenb., 
Malay. Archip. 1878, 272; (10) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 598. 
h. Brachyurus forsteni (1) Bp., Consp. 1850, I, 256; (II) Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 1863, pi. XXIV; 
(3) id.. Ibis 1870, 419. 
c. Melanopitta forsteni (1) Bp., Consp. Yol. Anisod. 1854, 7; (2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, 
YIH, 62; (3) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 126; (4) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 132; (5) Platen, 
Gefied. Welt 1887, 218. 
Pitta forsteni (1) Wall, Ibis 1864, 106; (2) Gray, HL. 1869, I, 295, Nr. 4363; (3) Wald., 
Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 189; (4) Rowley, Orn. Misc. H, 1877, 331, note; (V) Gould, 
B. New Guinea lY, pi. 30 (1879); (6) Sclat., Cat. B. XIY, 1888, 442; (7) White- 
head, Ibis 1893, 490, 499; (VIII) Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 1895, pt. Y, pL; (9) M. & Wg., 
Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 13. 
“Mopo idiu” (Green Grandfather), Minahassa, Meyer c 3. 
Figures and descriptions. Gould F; Elliot h II, b 3, VIII\ Westermann a III; Schlegel 
a V; Sclater 5; Whitehead 7. 
Adult. Entire head all round, neck and upper throat glossy velvety-black; upper 
surface glossy green, showing bright yellow, malachite or dark olive tints according 
to the light; sides of neck, jugulum, breast and sides of body bluer green, 
similarly variable; primaries, bastard-wing and concealed portion of secon- 
daries black; exposed portion of secondaries and innermost primaries, 
greatest wing-coverts and tail green, darker than the back; lesser wing-coverts 
and upper tail-coverts metallic silver-blue; abdomen and under tail-coverts 
deep scarlet; a patch of black separating the abdomen from the breast; entire 
under side of wing and tail shining black, (q^ ad. Rurukan, 17. I. 83: Platen 
in Mus. Nehrkorn, Nr. 946; Q ad. on the Gunung Sudara, Minahassa, 15. X. 93: 
P. & F. Sarasin Nr. 105). “Iris dark; bill black; legs grey” (Sarasins, MS.). 
Measurements (6 ex. in the Sarasin Collection, and 4 Dresden Mus.). Wing 116—126 mm; 
tail c. 40 — 47; tarsus c. 39 — 44; bill from nostril c. 16 — 17. 
Nestlings. Two in the Sarasin Collection are partially covered with pin-feathers, those along 
the sides of the body pale fulvous, the rest lead-colour. The arrangement of the ten 
primaries and twelve rectrices is well seen. “In stomach: remains of insects” (4. June, 
1894: P. & F. S.). The mother and the nest accompanying. 
Eggs. “Dr. Platen found on May 6*^, 1886, a nest with 2 eggs near Rurukan in the Mina- 
hassa. They d i ff er from one another: 
