LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family PITTID/E. 
CCLXXX. Genus AUSTROPITTA. 
Austropltta Mathews. Austral Av. Roc., Vol. II., pt. 2-3, p. 62, Oct. 23rd, 1913. Typo (by ordinal designation) • 
Pitta versicolor Swamson. Now name for Ooloburia Cttbnnis und Heine I860. 1 y 8 gnat ion) . 
Coloburis Cabanis und Heine, Mua. Heineanum, Vol. II 
designation, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e. Mol.. Vol. 
Swainson. 
p. 3 (after Jan. 20th), 1860. Type (by subsequent 
II., p. 37/, 1881): Pitta strcpitans=Pitta versicolor 
Not Cohbura Billberg, Enum. Insect., p. 19, 1820, nor Coloburus 
p. 399. 1853. 
Ditmeril in Inst, de la Mem., Vol. XXIII., 
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 : Now South Wales. 
Pitta strepitans Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d'Ois., 50' livr. (Vol. III., pi. 333). April 16th 1825 • New 
South Wales. 
Pitta australis " Gray.” Griffith and Pidgeon, Anim. Kingdom (Cuvier), Vol. VI., p. 401 " 1829” • New Holland 
=New South Wales. 
Pitta simiUima Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1S68, p. 76, June 1st: Cape York, Queensland. 
Pitta lerrffti Salvador!, 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 
nmtlhma 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 Kor, 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. Typo (by subsequent designation. Gray’, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 144, April 1855) : 
Pitta macklotn 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. J 
Petta macklotil Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 92' livr. (Vol. V., pi. 547), July 26th, 1834: Baie 
de Lobo, Nouvelle GuinSe. 
Pitta digghsi Krefft, Ibis, July 1869, p. 350 : Cape York or New Guinea (=New Guinea). 
Pitta 8trenua “ Gould MS/' Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 410 : *' New Guinea representative of P. macldoti 
Pitta macklotii aruensis Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. VIII., p. 63, Feb. 25tb, 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. 
PuIchripitta^Elliot, Monogr. Pittidae, 2nd ed., pt. 5, p. xviii. of Introd., Jan. 1895. Type (by monotypy): Pitta 
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. 
Pulchripitta iris keatsi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 5, p. 129, Jan. 28th, 1915 : Port Keats, Northern 
Territory. 
Pulchripitta iris mclvillensis Mathews, ib. : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Distribution. Northern Territory, North-west Australia. 
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