Birds of Celebes : Pittidae. 
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schweig. Anzeigen” (newspaper!), 3. Marz 188G; (5) Sclat., Cat. B. XTV, 1888, 420; 
(6) Sharpe, Tins 1889, 442; (7) Whitehead, 1. c. notes; (8) Everett, J. Str. Br. 
R. A. Soc. 1889, 147; (9) Sharpe, ib. 1890, 281; (10) Oates, ed. Hnme’s Rests 
& Eggs Ind. B. 1890, TT, 283; (11) Oates, Eiuin. Brit. Ind. B. n, 1890, 392; (12) Hose, 
Ibis 1893, 403; (13) Whitehead, t. c. 494; (14) Sharpe, Bns 1894, 421, 544. 
a. Brachyurus cyanopterus (I) Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 1863, pi. TV. 
b. Pitta moluccensis (1) Oates, Str. E. V, 1877, 149; (2) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 
144; (3) Hume & Davis., Str. E. VI, 1878, 240; (4) Oates, B. Brit. Burinah 
1883, I, 415. 
For synonymy and further references see Salvadori 5; Sclater 5. 
Figures and descriptions. Teniininck J; Schlegel J7; Elliot a I\ David & Oustalet b 4, 
17; Sclater 5. 
Adult. Head above isabella-colour, with a black vertical stripe; face, sides of head, and 
neck black; hack, scapulars and inner quills olive-green variable in different 
lights; upper wing- and tail-coverts glossy intense campanula-blue ; bastard wing 
and secondaries black, the latter edged with bluish; primaries white, them bases 
and the ends of the outer ones black; tail black, tipped with bluish; throat Avhite; 
under parts cinnamon-buff; middle of abdomen scarlet, paler on under tail- 
coverts; i;nder wing-coverts black (Baram, N. W. Borneo, Rr. 13305). Iris black; 
bill dark brown; legs pale pink (Whitehead 7). 
Sexes. Said to be similar. 
Young. They have the coronal streak broader, and the feathers of the crown are narrowly 
margined with black; wing-coverts dull blue, the other parts less bright than in the 
adult (Oates 11). 
Eggs. “Both the eggs in my collection were collected by Oates in Pegu. They belong to 
two different clutches, of which the two fellow s])ecimens were in the former See- 
bohm collection (now British Museum). The hmger example measui'es 30 X 22.5 mm, 
has a w'hite ground, with washy Hlac-grey subjacent, and a few small dark brown 
superjacent spots. The eggs have resemblance with those of Ckibia h/)ttentotta, 
brevirostris and laemostieta. Rr. 2 is considerably simdler and measui’cs 26 X 21 mm. 
The large brown surface spots are venniform and evenly distributed over the whole 
egg. Dates: Rr. 1, June 27“', 1877; Rr. 2, June 20“', 1878” (Rehrkorn MS.). 
Hume (b 1) describes the eggs as “far more thickly marked and richly coloured 
than those of any other Ground Thrushes with which I am acquainted”. Davison 
found as many as 6 in a nest; Oates says 4 — 6. 
Rest. A huge structure of sticks, leaves and roots, bound together with earth, placed on 
the ground in an open place or against the root of a tree; globular in shape, the 
entrance at one side close to the ground (Oates h 4). 
Distribution. Arakan (Blyth 5, Oates h 4); Pegu (Oates b 4)\ Tenasserim (Beavan 5, 
D avison b 5); Oorea (David b 2); South China (Sw'inhoe 5, David b 2); Siam and 
Cambodia (Brit. Mus. 5j; Malay Peninsula (Moore, Wallace 3, etc.); Sumatra 
(Raffles etc. 3); Borneo (Whitehead, etc. 8); Celebes — Minahassa (Platen 4); 
?Java (Temm. 3, Elliot 3); ? Luzon (Mus. Turin 3). 
This Pitta is a migrant; there is, therefore, nothing very surprising in the 
discovery of an example at Rurukan in the Minahassa by Dr. Platen in 1884 — 85. 
Burmah and Tenasserim are known as its breeding-grounds, from where it dis- 
appears, exce])t from S. Tenasserim, in the winter or dry season (cf. Davison b 3, 
Oates b 4, 11, Hume b 1). On Tega Island, Borneo, Mr. John Whitehead 
Meyer & Wiglesworth Birds of Celebes (Nov. 3vd, 181)7). 
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