460 MEGAPODIlDiE. 



p. 392 (1873) [Tanua & Vate Is., New Hebrides] ; E.L. S>- E. L. C. 



Layard, Ibis, 1878, pp. 27G, 280 [Vate I.J. 

 Me,i(apodiiis brenchleyi, Salvin {nee Gray), Ibis, 1874, p. 457. 

 Meo^apodius layardi, Tristram, Ibis, 1879, p. 194 [Vate I., New- 

 Hebrides] ; Layard, Ibis, 1879, p. 485; Schmeltz, Verk. Ver. 



Hamh. iv. p. 79 (1879; ; Schl. Mus. Fays-Bas, viii, p. G5 (1880) ; 



Oustal. Ann. Sci. Nat. xi. p. 1.50(1881); Tristr. Vat. Coll. B. 



p. 30 (1889) ; Wiylesw. Ahh. 3Ius. Bresd. 1890-91, no. 0, p. 68 



(1892). 



Adult male and female. The whole of the plumage is black; top 

 of the head, mantle, and back suffused with grej% changing to dull 

 olive on the wings and rump; the upper tail-coverts washed with 

 olive-brown ; i;nderparts like the mantle ; belly rather paler than 

 the breast ; the head and neck, with the exception of the occiput 

 and nape, are almost naked ; and the colour of the bare skin 

 appears to be orange-yellow. Beak pale yellow ; iris dark brown ; 

 lugs bright yellow. Total length 17 inches, wing 9-5, tail 3-5, 

 tarsus 2-9. 



Hah. New Hebrides. 



(i,b. c?^ ad.sk. Vate I., New II bi ides, C. L. Layard, Esq. 



July, Sept. [C.]. 



(Co-t^pes of the species.) 



14. Megapodius laperousii. 



Megnpodius la Perouse, Qiioy i|- Gaim. Voy. Uranie, p. 127, pi. 33 



(1824) [Guam, Botta, Tinian, Marianne Is.] 

 Megapodius laperousii, Temm. PI. Col. v. livr. 69, p. 3 (1826) ; 



Wayler, Isis, 1829, p. 736; Less. Traite d'Om. p. 478 (1831) ; 



id. Compl. de Buff., Ois. p. 255, pi. 9. tig. 2 (1840) ; Gray, Cat. B. 



Trop. Is. p. 46 (1859); id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 289, 1864, p. 43 ; 



Reiche.nh. Tauhen, pp. 5, 190, pi. 276. fig. 1532 (1862) ; Schl. Mm. 



Pays-Bas, viii. p. 65 (1880); Oustal. Ann. Sci. Nat. xi. p. 138 



(1881) ; id. Le Nat. 1889, p. 261 ; id. Ann. Sci. Nat. (7) xi. p. 196 



(1891) [Seypan and Pagon Is., Marianne Group]. 

 Megapodius la Peyrouse, Less. Man. d'Grn. ii. p. 221 (1828). 

 Megapodius senex. Hart I. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 830 [Pelew Is.] ; Hart I. 



6f Finsch, P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 7, 1 18, 1872, pp. 89, 103 ; iid. Cat. 3Ivs. 



Godeff. V. p. 11 (1874) ; Finsch, J. Mus. Godcff. iv. pt. viii. p. 29, 



pi. V. figs. 2 & 3 (1875) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, viii. p. (i5 (1880) ; 



Oustal. Ann. Sci. Nat. xi. p. 140 (1881); Schmeltz, Efhn. Abtli. 



M. G. p. 407 (1881) ; Ou.^tal. Le Nat. 1889, p. 261 ; Wiylesw. Abh. 



Mas. Bresd. 1890-91, no. 6, p. 58 (1892). 

 Megapodius perou.^ii, Wiglesw. Abh. Mus. Bresd. 1890-91, no. 6, 



p. 58 (1892). 



Adult. Top of the head French grey ; forehead, sides of the head, 

 and throat very thinly covered with feathers of tlje same colour ; 

 mantle, back, and underparts greyish black, shading into very dark 

 olive-brown on the wings; rump and upper tail-coverts dark brownish 

 chestnut ; tail brownish black ; middle of the belly paler than the 

 rest of the underparts ; naked skin on the face red : bill and legs 



