PITTIDAE 

RUSTY-NAPED PITTA 

Location : Bukit Fresee

Date : 4 November  2021

21–25 cm Male oatesi: Deep rufous head/underparts, thin blackish postocular stripe. Female: Duller; browner above, faint dark scales on lower throat/upper breast.Juvenile: Dark brown above/on breast, whitish crown-streaks, whitish-buff spots elsewhere; whitish-buff supercilium, whitish head-sides/throat (faint dark streaks on former). Other subspecies P.o.bolovenensis (S Laos, ? S Annam): Bright blue on back/rump (sometimes mantle-wash), pinker below. P.o.deborah (Pen Malaysia, ? S Thailand): Blue rump, strongly pinkish below. P.o.castaneiceps (C Laos, W Tonkin, ? N Annam). VOICE Sharp chow-whit. HABITAT Broadleaved evergreen forest; 380–2,565 m. RANGE Un/fc R N,S,E Myanmar, Tenasserim, W,NW,NE,extreme S Thailand, Pen Malaysia, Laos, W,E Tonkin, N,S Annam.