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Banded Pitta 
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nominate subspeciesConservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Pittidae Genus: Pitta Species: P. guajana Binomial name Pitta guajana
(Müller, 1776)The Banded Pitta, Pitta guajana, is a species of bird in the Pittidae family. It is found in forest in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sundas (except Sulawesi).
Female (nominate subspecies)
It includes four subspecies, which can be divided into three main groups: The nominate subspecies from Java and Bali has a yellow eyebrow, underparts that are densely barred in yellowish and blackish-blue and a narrow blue band on the upper chest, irena and ripleyi from the Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra have a more orange eyebrow, a blue belly and a chest that is barred orange and dark bluish (more orange towards the sides; blue towards the center), and schwaneri from Borneo has a blue mid-belly and yellow flanks and chest densely barred with blackish. Females of all subspecies are significantly duller than the males. There are also vocal differences between these, and it has been suggeted they are better treated as three separate species.
References
- BirdLife International 2004. Pitta guajana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007.
- Rheindt, F. E., and Eaton, J. A. (2010). Biological species limits in the Banded Pitta Pitta guajana. Forktail 26: 86-91.
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