Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family P1TTID/E, 
No. 423. 
AUSTROPITTA VERSICOLOR. 
NOISY PITTA. 
(Plate 371.)* 
Pitta versicolor Swainson, Zool. Journ., Vol. I., p. 468, Jan. 1825 : New South Wales. 
Pitta versicolor Swainson, Zool. Journ., Vol. I., p. 468, Jan. 1825. 
Pitta strepitans Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 56e livr. (Vol. III., pi. 333), 
April 16th, 1825 (New South Wales) ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vi. (Vol. IV., 
pi. I.), March 1st, 1842 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 430, 1865 ; Ramsay, 
Ibis, 1867, p. 416, pi. vm., f. 2 ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 54, 
1876 ; Ramsay, ib., Vol. II., p. 187, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Birds Austr., p. 10, 1888 ; 
Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIV., p. 428, 1888 ; Elliot, Mon. Pittidte, 
2nd ed., pt. 5, pi. xi., 1895 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., 
p. 525, 1901 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 59, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., pt. m., p. 309, 1909; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 53. 
Pitta australis “ Gray,” Griffith and Pidgeon, Anim. Kingdom (Cuvier), Vol. VI., p. 401, 
“ 1829 ” : New Holland ,= N.S.W. 
Brachyurus strepitans Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 254, 1850 ; Elliot, Mon. 
Pittidse, 1st ed., pi. (9), 1863 ; id., Ibis, 1870, p. 415. 
Coloburis strepitans Cabanis und Heine, Mus. Hein., Vol. II., p. 3, 1860. 
Pitta simillima Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1868, p. 76 (June 1) : Cape York, Queens- 
land ; Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 409 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 60, 1908 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., pt. m., p. 312, 1909 ; Barnard, 
Emu, Vol. XI., p. 25, 1911 (Q.) ; Macgillivray, id., Vol. XIII., p. 164,' 1914 (Q.) ; 
Campbell and Barnard, id., Vol. XVII., p. 19, 1917 (Q.) ; Macgillivray, id., Vol. 
XVII., p. 194, 1918 (Q.). 
Pitta kreffti Salvadori, Atti. Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., Vol. XII., 1869, p. 551, 1870 : Cape 
York, Queensland ; Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 409, not p. 418. 
Pitta strepitans var. simillima Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 591, 1876 
(Cardwell, Q.) ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 187, 1878 ; id., Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 11, 1888; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., 
p. 526, 1901. 
* The Plate is lettered Coloburis versicolor. 
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