Pitta - Information from Answers.com
The number of pitta genera has varied considerably, ranging from one to as
many as nine. In his 1863 work A Monograph of the Pittidae Daniel Elliot split the ...
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pitta: Definition from Answers.com
pitta (pĭt'ə), name used to refer to a genus (Pitta) of small, plump, brightly colored
birds. The genus, including some twenty-three species, constitutes the whole of ...
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Erythropitta - Information from Answers.com
Erythropitta is a genus of pitta. The genus contains six species, found mostly in
South-east Asia, with one species ranging into Australia. The genus was formerly ...
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Melampitta - Information from Answers.com
Melampitta is a genus of New Guinean bird containing two enigmatic species.
These are birds with black plumage that live in remote rainforests. They are little ...
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Hydrornis - Information from Answers.com
Hydrornis is a genus of pitta. The genus contains eleven to thirteen species,
found in South-east Asia. The genus was formerly merged with the large genus
Pitta ...
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Indian Pitta - Information from Answers.com
Genus: Pitta. Species ... The Indian Pitta (Pitta brachyura) is a medium-sized
passerine bird. ... The Indian Pitta is a small stubby-tailed bird that is mostly seen
on the floor of forests or under dense undergrowth, foraging on insects in leaf
litter.
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Blue-winged Pitta - Information from Answers.com
Genus: Pitta. Species: P. moluccensis. Binomial name. Pitta moluccensis (Müller,
1776). The Blue-winged Pitta (Pitta moluccensis) is a passerine bird in the
Pittidae ... It forms a superspecies with three other pittas and has no subspecies.
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Hooded Pitta - Information from Answers.com
Genus: Pitta. Species: P. ... The Hooded Pitta, Pitta sordida, is a passerine bird. ...
Hooded Pittas can reach a length of 16 to 19 cm and a weight of 42 to 70 g.
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Mangrove Pitta - Information from Answers.com
Genus: Pitta. Species: P. ... The Mangrove Pitta (Pitta megarhyncha) is a species
of passerine bird in the Pittidae family native to Southeast Asia. ... The Mangrove
Pitta was first described by German ornithologist Hermann Schlegel in 1863.
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Rainbow Pitta - Information from Answers.com
Family: Pittidae. Genus: Pitta. Species: P. iris. Binomial name. Pitta iris. Gould,
1842. The Rainbow Pitta, Pitta iris, is a bird with a velvet black head and ...
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