Genus — A USTROPITTA. 
Austropitta Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 2-3, 
p. 62, Oct. 23, 1913. Type (by original designation) : Pitta versicolor Sw. 
New name for Coloburis Cabanis und Heine, 1860. 
Goloburis Cabanis und Heine, Mus. Heineanum, Vol. II., ' 
p. 3, (after Jan. 20) 1860. Type (by subsequent Pitta strepitans = 
designation, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol., Vol. II., P. versicolor Swainson. 
p. 377, 1881). 
Not — 
Colobura Billberg, Enum. Insect, p. 19, 1820. 
Nor— 
Coloburus Dumeril in Inst, de la Mem., Vol. XXIII., p. 399, 1853. 
The present group does not differ much in coloration from the preceding descrip- 
tion of the type of Pitta, but the birds are much larger with comparatively 
massive bills. The wing has the first primary short, about equal to the sixth, 
while the third is longest, the second being longer than the sixth. The tail is 
longer and more prominent with the feathers stiffer ; the legs are much stouter 
and the feet stronger with the tarsus comparatively shorter. Although the 
species varies much in size the above characters agree in the smallest form. 
The name Austropitta was introduced as Coloburis was preoccupied 
according to the views of present-day ornithologists, and especially of such 
purists as Cabanis and Heine themselves, who, moreover, introduced the 
name as a general substitute for Pitta, which they considered inacceptable 
as being a barbaric word. 
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