Pitta Collection

Indian pitta, Pitta brachyura (Short-tailed crow, Corvus brachyurus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Javan banded pitta, Pitta guajana (Blue-tailed thrush, Turdus cyanurus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Pitta brachyura, Indian pitta
Plate 51, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Pitta Iris, from the Gould Collection
Rainbow Pitta, Pitta Iris, specimen, collected by Captain Chambers in Australia between 1839 and 1841 Date: 1839

Pitta gurneyi, Gurneys pitta
Plate 5 from John Goulds A Monograph of the Pittidae (1880). Hand coloured lithograph

Pitta brachyura, Indian pitta
Plate 38, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Cafe on a street in Cairo, Egypt
Scene outside a cafe on a street in Cairo, Egypt, with pitta bread on display. Date: early 20th century

Giant Blue Pitta
A Giant Blue Pitta. Date: 1960s

Bosnia - Sarajevo - Lunchtime
An old Bosnian man tucks into his lunch in a Sarajevo Market. He appears to be eating some form of folded flatbread

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