Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 424. 
Family PITTIDM. 
ERYTHROPITTA MACKLOTII. 
BLUE-BREASTED PITTA. 
(Plate 372.) 
Pitta macklotii Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 92e livr. (Vol. V., pi. 547), 
July 26th, 1834 : Baie de Lobo, Nouvelle Guinee. 
Pitta macklotii Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 92e livr. (Vol. V., pi. 547), 
1834; Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl. (pt. v.), pi. 29, Aug. 1st, 1869; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 187, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, pt. 11, 1888 ; 
Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Yol. XIV., p. 436, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat. No. 
12, p. 174, 1890; Elliot, Mon. Pittidse, 2nd ed., pt. 5, pi. 33, 1895; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 528, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr. 
p. 53, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 60, 1908; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., pt. 3, p. 312, 1909; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 237, 1910 
(Cardwell, Q.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 25, 1911 (Q.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. 
XIII., p. 164, 1914 (Q.) ; id., ib., Vol. XVII., p. 194, 1918 (Q.). 
Brachyurus macklotii Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 255, 1850 ; Elliot, Mon. 
Pittidse, 1st ed., pi. (21), 1863 ; id., Ibis, 1870, p. 418. 
Pitta digglesi Krefft, Ibis, July 1869, p. 350 : Cape York or New Guinea (= New Guinea). 
Pitta strenua “ Gould MS. ” Elliot, Ibis, July 1870, p. 410 : “ New Guinea representative 
of P. mackloti” ! 
Pitta macklotii yorki Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 299, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cape 
York, Queensland. 
Erythropitta macklotii Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 162, 1913. 
Erythropitta macklotii yorki Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Cape York district of Queensland to Cardwell ; Southern New Guinea. 
Adult male. Crown of head black with pinkish tips to the feathers and a slight tinge of 
greyish-blue on the vertex, above the eye, and on the ear-coverts ; nape and hind- 
neck dark brick-red ; mantle, upper back, and scapulars dull bronze-green ; 
wings, lower back, upper tail-coverts and tail slate-blue, some of the lesser upper 
wing-coverts are white on the basal portion of the feathers ; bastard-wing, 
primary-coverts, and quills black with greyish-brown tips to the last ; the third, 
fourth, and fifth primary-quills marked with white, a very slight indication of white 
on the inner-web of the second quill, outer margins of secondary-quills slate-blue ; 
cheeks and throat rust-brown ; throat and a narrow band across the lower-breast 
black ; a broad band across the upper-breast greyish-blue ; abdomen, sides of 
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