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Black-crowned pitta
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Not to be confused with Erythropitta venusta, also sometimes known as the black-crowned pitta.
The black-crowned pitta (Erythropitta ussheri), also known as the black-headed pitta, black-and-crimson pitta, black-and-scarlet pitta or black-crowned garnet pitta, is a brightly coloured, ground-dwelling, bird species in the pitta family. It is endemic to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo.[3] It was described by John Gould in 1877, with the type locality recorded as the Lawas River in northern Sarawak.[4]
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E. ussheri in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Malaysia | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Pittidae |
Genus: | Erythropitta |
Species: | E. ussheri |
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Erythropitta ussheri (Gould, 1877) | |
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