iii [Vol. X. 
Of the ten specimens mentioned above, Mr. Rothschild 
has three males and one female alive. The other six died, 
and a stuffed male and female were exhibited. Mr. Roth- 
schild hoped to secure one more female, which had been 
mounted, but the remaining two males and one female had 
been destroyed. 
The habitat of the species was still unknown. 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild also exhibited specimens 
of all the species of Pitta belonging to the red-bellied 
section of that genus in the ‘^Catalogue of Birds,'* 
excepting P. cceruleitorques, which he did not possess. He 
observed : — 
“ Of all these forms, Pitta ruhrinucha by its red nape, 
P. kochi by its large size, and P. dohertyi by its broad black 
pectoral collar and black ring round the neck, are the most 
distinct. 
“ The best known and the most widely distributed is 
probably P. mackloti, which inhabits nearly the whole 
of New Guinea, Waigiu, Salwatti, Mysol, and — according 
to Salvadori, Sclater, and others — also the Aru Islands, 
Cape York, New Britain, and the Key islands. From the 
latter locality Count Salvadori had no adult specimens when 
he wrote his great work ; but I have now a fine series, and 
find that the species is not P. mackloti, but as different 
as many of the other forms of this group. In Pitta 
kuehni — as I propose to name the form inhabiting the Key 
Islands and Koer — the blue of the chest extends over 
the sides of the chest and breast (where there is a green 
patch in P. mackloti) and is continued in a narrow blue 
ring round the upper back. The feathers on the sides of 
the chest appear to be somewhat more elongated than in 
P. mackloti. Adult birds have some blue on the crown — a 
character which is rather rare in P. mackloti. 
“Pitta finschi, described by Ramsay from the Astrolabe 
Range, is the Pitta of the D’Entrecasteaux Islands ; and 
Elliot is quite wrong in placing P. finschi as a synonym of 
P. cyanonota from Ternate. The latter has the head reddish 
