LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family PITTIDZE. 
CCLXXX. Genus AUSTROPITTA. 
Austropitta Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 2-3, p. 62, Oct. 23rd, 1913. Type (by original designation) : 
Pitta versicolor Swainson. New name for Coloburis Cabanis und Heine, 1860. 
Coloburis Cabanis und Heine, Mus. Heineanum, Vol. II., p. 3 (after Jan. 20th), 1860. Type (by subsequent 
designation, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e. Mol.. Yol. II., p. 377, 1881) : Pitta strepitans= Pitta versicolor 
Swainson. 
Not Colobura Billberg, Enum. Insect., p. 19, 1820, nor Coloburus Dumeril in Inst, de la Mem., Voh XXIII., 
p. 399, 1853. 
335. AUSTROPITTA VERSICOLOR. NOISY PITTA. 
Gould, Vol. IV., pi. 1 (pt. vi.), March 1st, 1842. Mathews, Vol. VIII., pt. i., pi. 371, May 5th, 
1920. 
Pitta versicolor Swainson, Zool. Journ., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 468, Jan. 1825 : New South Wales. 
Pitta strepitans Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 56 e livr. (Vol. III., pi. 333), April 16tli, 1825 : New 
South Wales. 
Pitta australis " Gray,” Griffith and Pidgeon, Anim. Kingdom (Cuvier), Vol. VI., p. 401, “ 1829” : New Holland 
= New South Wales. 
Pitta simillima Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1868, p. 76, June 1st : Cape York, Queensland. 
Pitta kreffti Salvadori, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., Vol. XII., 1869, p. 551, Feb. 1870 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Pitta assimilis D’Albertis, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, Vol. X., p. 12 (after May 3rd), 1877. Nom. nud. Error for 
simillima Gould ; id., Ibis, 1877, p. 368, pt. 3, July. Nom. nud. 
Pitta versicolor intermedia Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 298, Jan. 31st, 1912: Bellenden Ker, Queensland. 
Distribution. Eastern Australia, from Cape York to New South Wales. 
CCLXXXI. Genus ERYTHROPITTA. 
Erythropitta Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, Vol. II., No. 11, p. 317 (Consp. Volucr. Aniso., p. 7), August (before 
28th), 1854. Type (by subsequent designation, Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 144, April 1855) : 
Pitta macklotii Temminck et Laugier. 
336. ERYTHROPITTA MACKLOTII. BLUE-BREASTED PITTA. 
Gould, Suppl., pi. 29 (pt. v.), Aug. 1st, 1869. Mathews, Vol. VIII., pt. i., pi. 372, May 5th, 
1920. 
Pitta macklotii Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d'Ois., 92 e livr. (Vol. V., pi. 547), July 26th, 1834 : Baie 
de Lobo, Nouvelle Guinee. 
Pitta digglesi Krefft, Ibis, July 1869, p. 350 : Cape York or New Guinea (=New Guinea). 
Pitta strenua “ Gould MS.” Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 410 : “ New Guinea representative of P. mackloti.” 
Pitta macklotii aruensis Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. VIII., p. 63, Feb. 25th, 1901 : Wokan, Aru 
Islands. 
Pitta macklotii yorki Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 299, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland, from Cape York to Cardwell, New Guinea, Aru Islands. 
CCLXXXII. Genus PULCHRIPITTA. 
Pulehripitta Elliot, Monogr. Pittidse, 2nd ed., pt. 5, p. xviii. of Introd., Jan. 1895. Type (by monotypy) : Pitta 
ins Gould. 
337. PULCHRIPITTA IRIS. RAINBOW PITTA. 
Gould, Vol. IV., pi. 3 (pt. vi.), March 1st, 1842. Mathews, Vol. VIII., pt. i., pi. 371, May 5th, 
1920. 
Pitta iris Gould, Birds Austr., pt. 6 (Vol. IV., pi. 3), March 1st, 1842 : Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Pulehripitta ms keatsi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 5, p. 129, Jan. 28th, 1915 : Port Keats, Northern 
Territory. 
Pulehripitta iris melvillensis Mathews, ib. : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Distribution. Northern Territory, North-west Australia. 
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