It seems to me that the pitta dislikes cold and wind, and therefore naturally seeks any shelter that presents itself.
Even as the coat of many colours brought tribulation upon Joseph of old, so does the much-coveted, multi-hued plumage of the pitta frequently bring death to its possessor.
The pitta is quick on its feet, and is able to hop and run with equal ease.
To this class, to the class that hide their light under a bushel, the beautiful Indian pitta (Pitta brachyura) belongs.
Hatchell informs me that he once picked up in his verandah a dead pitta that had probably been killed by crows.
Possibly another reason why the pittaso frequently enters bungalows is to avoid the crows.
Apart from the colouring, it is impossible to confound the pitta with any other bird.
The pitta seems to occur in all parts of Eastern, Central, and Southern India, undergoing local migration to the south in the autumn and back again in the spring.
The nest of thepitta is described as a globular structure fully nine inches in horizontal diameter and six inches high, with a circular aperture on one side.
It is strange that so retiring a bird as the pitta should find its way with such frequency into inhabited houses.
The Blue-headed Pittawas abundant at the Kalabakan collecting locality, in primary forest.
This pitta was exceedingly tame, often moving along only 20 feet ahead of the observer.
Nearly every morning--generally the first bird obtained, and only seen thus early--a beautiful pitta was shot.
A momentary glance of a pitta gave for a few days (until we obtained a series of specimens) a fresh zest to collecting; this bird also was hitherto unrecorded from the locality, and proved to be a new species, although closely resembling P.
We should not, it is true, overlook the fact that the customs of the Pitta-Pitta differ from those of many of the Australian tribes, in that exchange of sisters is not practised.
In one case, that of the Kalkadoon, this is sufficiently explained by the fact that the tribe is itself now remote geographically speaking from its fellows, owing to the interposition of Pitta-Pitta and allied tribes.
Nearly mature males of this red-bellied pitta were collected near Cape Engaño.
Steere's pitta is by no means common in any of the islands where it has been found.
The red-breasted pitta is common throughout the islands; it is found on the ground, usually in dark places in the forest and in second growth.
The type of Pitta fastosa McGregor proves to be a specimen of P.
The black-headed pittais called 'wow-ha' by the natives from its note.
This is the case, for example, with the corrobbori of the Molonga among the Pitta-Pitta of Queensland and the neighbouring tribes (see Roth, Ethnog.
Both, who knows the local Pitta Pitta language--and is not a missionary.
Of all the birds of Lombock, however, I sought most after the beautiful ground thrushes (Pitta concinna), and always thought myself lucky if I obtained one.
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