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PITTIDiE. 
seen from Cape York ; others again, are not to be distinguished 
from the New South AVales birds ; the white spot on the wing is 
almost obsolete in many from the ranges near Cardwell. Their 
notes are exactly the same in all localities. The nest and eggs 
are the same, and are found to vary in the same way as those 
described and figured by me in the “ Ibis,” 18G7, p. 414. In size 
they are slightly smaller. I believe the finely spotted variety of 
the eggs of this species, taken at Cape York by Cockerell and 
Thorpe, was at the time mistaken for the eggs of Pitta macklotii 
—rwliich is very probable. One thing is certain, I never knew a 
nest of either Pitta slrepitans or P. shnilima to contain more 
than three eggs alike; and often two out of the four (the number 
invariably laid for a sitting) have been of the finely spotted and 
light-coloured variety, the other two strongly and deeply marked 
as figured in the Ibis, 1SG7, p. 414.” ( Ramsay , P.Z.S., 1875, 
p. 591.) 
llab. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, South Coast New Guinea. 
(Ramsay.) 
PITTA MACKLOTII, Muller and Scldegel. 
Macklot’s Pitta. 
Gould , Suppl. Hds. Ausl., PI. 29. 
The habits and nidification of this bird is similar to the preceding 
species. Two eggs in the Dobroydc Collection are in form swollen 
ovals, creamy-white, blotched and spotted all over with irregular 
shaped markings of light purplish-brown and obsolete spots of 
purplish lilac and bluish-grey, the latter colour appearing as if 
beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) PI7 x 086 inch ; 
(B) PIS x 087 inch. 
I lab. Cape York, South Coast New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 
