specimens collected by any one else have reached Europe from there ; whereas P. celebensis appeared to be 
less rare there than in the northern parts. Here I got specimens of P.forsteni in the Minahassa and in 
the district of Gorontalo. 
“ Pittas are shy birds, as I have said before ; but their flute-like cry once heard, the specimen can nearly 
always be got with patience and quietness ; imitating its voice, the bird can be called up till it is close to 
the hunter’s gun. The rareness of the black-headed Pitta on Celebes is proved by the fact that its 
colours shelter it even less than the colours of P. celebensis shelter that species, or the bright blue shoulder- 
patches of P.forsteni, which always glitter on the ground, which it never quits. The colour of the iris is 
dark, the feet dusky, the hill black. It feeds on insects of all kinds. Its name in the Minhassa is ‘ Mopo 
idiu,’ that is to say, ‘ Green Mopo,’ ‘ Mopo ’ being the name for P. celebensis, the meaning of which word 
in the Alfuro language I have explained in my ‘ Field-notes on the Birds of Celebes ’ ( c Ibis,’ 1879, p. 126), 
where I also narrated the story which the natives attached to this bird.” 
