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. forstent in the Minahassa and in

the district of Gorontalo.
« Pittas are shy birds, as I have said before; but their flute-like ery 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 bill 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’ (‘ Ibis,’ 1879, p. 126),
where I also narrated the story which the natives attached to this bird.”