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1. MEGArODIUS. 455 



1850, p. 1 ")0 [Dorev, New Guinea], ISfil, pp. 290, 43R, pi. xxxiii. 



(jiiv.); Rrichcnh. Taiiben, j). 190 (18(y) ; IfW/«ee, P. /. 6'. 1863, 



p. 487 [Lombock and Floris] ; (Jrfi)/, P. Z. S. 18(U, p. 43; 



id. LiM. Gallina Brit. Mus. p. 20 (18 57); Roaenh. Itci^ naar 



Ziiiiloostercil, p. /jO [Maikor, Aroo Is.], p. 82 [Doela, Kei Is.] 



(181)7); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 255 (1870); Mfiyer, SB. Ak. 



Wlen, l.xix. pp. 87, 214 (1874) ; Rosenb. Malaij. Archip. p. 372 



(1878-79). 

 Mef,Mpi)dius tumulus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 20; id. B. Austr. v. 



pt. vi. pi. 79 (1842); Grai/, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 290, pi. xxxiv. 



[N. Australia ; Islands in Endeavour and Torres Straits] ; id. P. Z. S. 



1864, p. 43 [Cairncross I.] ; Guuld, llandb. B. Austr. ii. p. 167 



(1865); Finsch, Noi-Guui. p. 180(1865); Ramsay, Ibis, I860, 



p. 86, 1866, p. 325 [Port Denison]; Gray, Hand-l. B.n. p. 255 



(1870); Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 117, 118 [X. Queensland!; 



Dir/r/h's, B. Au^fr. ii. p. & pi. 94 (1877) ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1878, 



p. 126 [Cape York] ; Ramsay, Tab. List Au^fr. B. p. 18 (1888) ; 



Lumholtz, Amony Cannibals, p. 149, woodcut (1889); North, 



Nests ^- E. Austr. B. p. 282 (1889). 

 Mejrapodius rufipes, 311111. Land- en Volkimh. pp. 23, 109 (1839-44) 



[11. l^tanata, W. New Guinea] : Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelwinkb. 



p. 84 (1875). 

 Alecthidia urvillei, Wallace (nee Less.), Ann. May. N. II. (2) xx. 



p. 478 (1857). 

 Megapodius sp., Wallaoe, Ann. Mag. N. II. (2) xx. pp. 473, 477 



(1857) [juv.] [Kei and Aroe Is.]. 

 Megapodius poul.lii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 290 [Lombock], 1804, 



p. 4:; [Floris] ; id. Iland-l. B. ii. p. 255 (1870). 

 ^legapodius amboincnsis. Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 293 [Banda]. 

 Megapodius duperrei, Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. hid. xxv. p. 252 



(1863) [Salawatti]; Vorderm. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned.Ind.l. p. 520 



(1890) [Kangeang Arch.]. 

 Megapodius maegilivrayi, Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 180 (1865) [Port 



Essington]. 

 Megapodius assimilis. Masters, P. Linn. Soc. N.S. IF. i. p. 59 (1887) 



[Dungeness and Bet Is., Torres Straits] ; Ramsai), P. Linn. 



Soc. N.S.W. ii. p. 196 (1877j; id. Tabl. List Austr. B. p. 18 



(1888)._ 

 Megapodius sp., Vorderm. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. lud. xlix. p. 71 



(1889) [Kaugeaug Arch.]. 



After carefully examining a large scries of specimens from 

 Lombock, Floris, Kei, and Aroe Islands, also New Guinea and 

 Australia, I have arrived at the same conclusions as Oustalet, 

 who was the first to recognize that the birds inhabiting these 

 islands were not specificallj- distinct from one another. If we 

 compare the more lightly coloured birds from Floris and Lombock 

 (4I/. (jonhlii. Gray) with llie much darker specimens from Western 

 Australia (J/, tumulus, tiould), the difference between the two is no 

 doubt considerable both in colour and size, thougli the latter is of 

 little or no imjtortance, but the Lombock birds cannot be distin- 

 guished from some specimens from Kei and Aroe Islands, while 

 other specimens from the latter localities are undistinguishable from 

 New Guinea and Australian examples. It is therefore impossible 



