“ In its habits it differs in no respect from the Pitta Cyanura.
“We obtained three specimens, two males and one female, in whose stomachs we
found remains of eoleoptera, which in the one subject it was perfectly easy to distinguish
as a Blatta, and in the other as a Pentatoma.
“ The specimen represented by M. Temminck, (Planch. Color., 547,) is a female,
which sex, however, in all respects of plumage, agrees with the male.”
I have represented two individuals in the plate, so as to be able to show all their
plumage. They are life-size.
The beautiful plant is the Pterostigma Grandiflorum, great flowered wing-point,
