PASSEEES. 
Series D. Fokmicaeioid Passeees. 
Wing ivith W primaries, the first well developed and typically long. 
{Cf. Wallace, Ibis, 1874, p. 413.) 
Fam. PITTID^. 
Bill moderately stout and straight, notched at the tip ; gape smooth. Wings very ample, 
proportionately long, with the secondaries lengthened. Tail of 12 feathers, very short, scarcely 
exceeding the tarsus ; under tail-coverts lengthened. Tarsus long. 
Of terrestrial habit. 
Genus PITTA. 
With the characters of the family. Bill scarcely compressed ; gonys somewhat deep ; 
nostrils oval and oblique, exposed ; culmen keeled and greatly curved to the tip. Wings with 
the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quills nearly equal ; the 3rd usually the longest; the 1st shorter than the 
5th. Tail rounded. Tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw, shielded in front with wide, 
smooth, transverse scales ; toes short, middle toe considerably exceeding the lateral ones, ol 
which the outer is the longer ; hind toe rather long, its claw curved. 
PITTA CORONATA. 
(THE INDIAN PITTA.) 
Turdus coronatus, P. L. S. Muller, Natursyst. Anhang, p. 144 (1766). 
Corvus hracliyurus, var. hengalensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 376 (1788). 
Turdus triostegus, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, fasc. iv. pi. 84 (1788). 
Pitta hrachyura, Gould, Cent. Him. Birds, pi. 23 (1832) ; Jerdon, Cat. B. S. India, Madr. 
Joum. 1839, X. p. 251; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 122 (1852); Layard, Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 269 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 445 ; Ball, Str. Feath. 
1878, vii. p. 213. 
Pitta triostegus (S])avvm.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 157 (1849). 
Pitta hengalensis (Gm.), Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 184 (1854) ; Jerdon, 
B. of Ind. i. p. 503 (1862) ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 133. 
Brachyurus hengalensis (Gm.), Elliot, Mon. Pittidm, pi. iv. (1863). 
Brachyurus coronatus (Muller), Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 414. 
Pitta coronata, Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 224 (1873); Ball, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 406; 
