PITTA CONCINNA, Gould . 
Elegant Pitta. 
Bracliyurus vigorsi, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 255 (1850, nec Gould). 
Pitta concinna, Gould, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 65. — Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485. — Schlegel, Yog. van Nederl. Indie, 
pp. 12, 32, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1863). — Id. Mus. Pays-Bas, Pitta, p. 10 (1865). — Id. op. cit., Revue Pitta, 
p. 14 (1874). 
Pitta mathildcE, J. & E. Yerreaux, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, p. 303, pi. xi. 
Brachyurus concinnus, Elliot, Monogr. Pittidse, pi. x. (1863). — Id. Ibis, 1870, p. 416. 
This species of Pitta was first published by mein 1857, when I described it from specimens obtained by Mr. 
A. R. Wallace in the island of Lombock. It appears that it also inhabits the island of Sumbawa, as speci- 
mens from the latter locality were contained in the Leiden Museum many years before I described the bird 
as new, and one of these specimens was wrongly identified by Bonaparte as Pitta vigorsi, figured by me in 
the * Birds of Australia.’ Professor Schlegel, however, in his list of the Pittas in the Leiden Museum, has 
corrected the error of Bonaparte, which an examination of the specimen described by the latter enabled him 
to do, and lias placed the species in its correct position. In the supplementary list of the Leiden Pittas, 
Professor Schlegel records two specimens from the island of Flores ; so that its range is now known to include 
the three islands of Flores, Lombock, and Sumbawa, to which it will probably be found to be confined. 
The characters by which P. concinna may be distinguished are its small size and the tint of the brown 
on the head, which is much clearer than in P. strepitans and only extends as far as the occiput, where it is 
prolonged into a streak of bluish white. 
I regret to say that nothing has been written respecting the habits of this bird ; and I can only add that 
the name concinna, published by me, has a slight priority (only of a few days, according to Mr. Elliot) over 
the name mat hi Id a:, given by MM. Yerreaux in the same year. 
The following is a copy of the original description : — 
“ Head, back of the neck, cheeks, chin, and stripe down the centre of the throat velvety black ; from the 
nostrils over each eye a broad mark of deep buff, posterior to which is a narrower one of pale glaucous blue ; 
back, tail, and wings dark grass-green ; lesser wing-coverts and a band across the rump glossy verditer blue ; 
primaries and secondaries black, the fourth, fifth, and sixth of the former crossed by a band of white near 
their base, and all the primaries tipped on the external web with olive grey ; upper tail-coverts black ; under 
surface delicate fawn-colour, becoming much paler where it meets the black of the cheeks and throat; centre 
of the abdomen black ; vent and under tail-coverts fine scarlet ; bill black ; feet fleshy. 
“Total length 6 inches, bill 1, wing 4, tail li, tarsus If.” 
The figures in the Plate, representing the two sexes about the natural size, are drawn from the typical 
specimens, still in my possession. 
