1. MEGAPODIUS. 4GL 



j-ellow; feet and (laws black. Total length 9-5 inches, wing 7, 

 tail 2-;5, tarsus 2. 



An immature bird (type of the species) differs from the adult in 

 having the general colour brown, shading into rufous-brown on the 

 underparts, and the coverts and secondaries margined with rufuus. 



JIah. ilarianne and Pelew Islands. 



ft. Ad. sic. P.'lew r^. J. Colien, [C.]. 



L \ix ad. .sk. IVluw Is. {J. Cohen). Tweuddale L'oll. 



1."). Megapodius pritchardi. 



^^oga]1odills sp., Girii/, Cat. 11. Trop. lal. p. 40 (18o0) [Samoa]. 



Megapodius — F, Grin/, Cat. B. Trop. If. ]). 4(! (I8"»ii) [Ilapai I.]. 



Mega])odiiis stairi*, Grai/, P. Z. S. 18G1, p. 2'JO ; lieic/ie/i/). Tmihen, 

 p. 11)0 (1802) ; Gray. 'l\ Z. S. 1864, p. 44; Finsch Sf Hartl. Oni. 

 Centralpol. p. l-'io (18()7) ; Finsch, J.f. O. 1872, p. 52; Whitmee, 

 IftU, 187;'), p. 447 [real localitv of tvpo (egg) Xinafou not Samoa ) ; 

 Lniiard, P. Z. S. 187(3, p. 4U6 ; F'ui.ic/i, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 782, 

 78:'5; Ou.'^tal. Ann. Sci. Nat. .\i. p. 144 (1881); Wiylesw. Ahh. 

 .Mas. Brcsd. 18!)0-!)1, no. 0, p. 58 (1892). 



Me'raiKidiiis buinabyi*, Grai,, P. Z. S. 18G1. p. 290 [Ilapai 1.1; 

 Ileichenh. raid>en,']\ 190 (1802) ; Gratj, P. Z. 8. 1864, pp. 42, 44 ; 

 Finach tS- Hartl. Om. Centralpol. p. lo-j (1807); iid. P. Z. fi. 

 1809, p. 545 [Tonga Is.]; Griife, J.f. O. 1870, p. 420; Laijard, 

 P. Z. S. 187()^, p. o03 [not found in Friendlv Is.]. 



IMegapodius sp., Bennett, P. Z. S. 1802, p. 24/^ [Ninafou]. 



Megapodius pritchardii, Gray, Ann. May. N. II. {■'>) xir. p. 378 

 (1804); id. P.Z.S. 1804, p. 41, pi. vi. [Ninafou]; Finsch 8f 

 Ilartl. Orn. Centralpol. p. 1;>3, pi. ii. lig. o [e'^^'] (1807) ; Gray, 

 Ilnnd-l. li. ii. p. 2oo (1870) ; Ilidton, Trans. K Zeal. Inst. iv. 

 p. 1(35 (1872) : ,SV'///. Mus. Pai/.f-Bas, viii. p. 04 (1880) ; Schmeltz, 

 Ethn. Ahth. M. G. 1^81, p. 20.J ; Baker, A. Zeal. Journ. Sci. ii. 

 p. 174(1884) [Ninafcm]. 



Jlegapodius sp., Ilidton, Ibis, 1809, p. S-jS [Xinafou]. 



Megapodius hultoni, Bull. Trans. X. Zeal. Inst. iii. p. 14 (1870). 



Adult -f. Wings and back rufous brown; head, neck, interscapular 

 region, breast, and upper part of the belly dirty lead-grey ; middle 

 of the belly, vent, and luulor tail-coverts dirty ycllowi.sli grey ; 

 throat and neck thinly feathered. In the type-specimen the tail is 

 rufous brown, mixed with white; some of the longer upper tail- 

 covorts arc also white, and the basal portions of the primaries, 

 with the exception of the first, are mostly white, while some of the 

 outer secondaries also show traces of white towards the base. 

 Kakcd skin on the cheeks and upper part of the neck red ; bill 



* Neither of these names, even if really foimded on eggs of this species 

 (wliich is soim>\vlmt d mbtful, as the luealilios of the types are uncertain), should 

 bo u.-('<l, sucl) ii:inu's lioinj; quite in.ulnii^sihlc. 



t TliP nmount of white on the liasal part of the primaries and outer 

 scoouriaries, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers appears to varv in each indi- 

 vidual specimen. 



