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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 ruflventris 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 FOKSTENI Bp. 
Celebes Green Pitta. 
a. Pitta melanocephala (1) Milll. & Schl. (nec Wagl.), Verb. Natuurk. Comm. 1839 — 44, Aves, 
Pitta, p. 19 (ex Porsten MS.); (2) Gray, Gen. B. I, 214 (1846); (III) Westerm., 
Bijdr. t. d. Dierk. 1854, I, 46, Pitta, pi. II; (4) Schl., Haudl. Dierk. 1857, 254; 
(V) id., Vog. Ned. Ind. 1863, 5, 30, pi. n, f. 1; (6) id., Mus. P.-B. Pitta 1863, 4; 
(7) Finsch, Neu-Guinea 1865, 167; (8) Schl., Eev. Pitt. 1874, 9; (9) Bosenh., 
Malay. Archip. 1878, 272; (10) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 598. 
b. Brachyurus forsteni (1) Bp., Consp. 1850, I, 256; (Ilj Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 1863, pi. XXIV; 
(3) id.. Ibis 1870, 419. 
c. Melanopitta forsteni (1) Bp., Oonsp. Vol. Anisod. 1854, 7; (2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, 
Vrn, 62; (3) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 126; (4) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 132; (5) Platen, 
Gefied. Welt 1887, 218. 
Pitta forsteni (1) Wall., Ibis 1864, 106; (2) Gray, HL. 1869,1, 295, Nr. 4363; Wald., 
Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 189; (4) Bowley, Orn. Misc. H, 1877, 331, note; (V) Gould, 
B. New Guinea IV, pL 30 (1879); (6) Sclat, Oat. B. XIV, 1888, 442; (7) White- 
head, Bus 1893, 490, 499; ( VIII) Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 1895, pt. V, ph; (9) M. & Wg., 
Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 13. 
“Mopo idiu” (Green Grandfather), Minahassa, Moyer c 3. 
Figures and descriptions. Gould F; Elliot 6 Zf, 6 3, FZZ7; Westernaann a ZZ7; Schlegel 
a F; 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 hght; sides of neck, jugulum, breast and sides of body bluer green, 
similarly vai-iable; 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 metalhc 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. Burukan, 17. I. 83: Platen 
in Mus. Nehrkorn, Nr. 946; $ ad. on the Gunung Sudara, Minahassa, 15. X. 93; 
P. & F. Sarasin Ni’. 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 an-angement 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 Burukan in the Mina- 
hassa. They differ from one another: 
