462 MEGAP0DIIDJ5. 



yellow, dusky towards the base ; feet pale red. Total length 10-5 

 inches, wing 7'4, tail 2-15, tarsus 2*1. 

 Hah. Niuafou or Hope Island. 



a. Ad. sk. (iu spirit). Niuafou. W. T. Pritchard, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of the species.) 



b. Ad. sk. (bad stale). [Ninafou.] Gould Coll. 



2. EULIPOA. 



Head and neck feathered with the exception of a small space 

 surrounding the eye which is mostly naked. 



Nostrils oval. 



Tail composed of 12 sharp-pointed feathers, the middle pair being 

 the longest. 



Upper tail-coverts much shorter than the tail-feathers. 



1st primary intermediate in length between the 7th_and Sth, and 

 much longer than the 10th ; 4th slightly the longest. Secondaries 

 much shorter than the primaries. 



Tarsi and feet large ; fore part of tarsus covered with a single 

 row of scutes. 



liaiu/e. Islands of Gilolo, Batjan, Ternate, Boeroe, Coram, and 

 Amboina. 



1. Eulipoa wallacei. 



Megapodius sp. nov., Wallace, Ibis, L^OO, p. 197. 



Meg-apodiu? wallacei, Gray, P. Z. S. IHCO, p. 362, pi. clxxi. [E. Gilolo], 



18t)l, p. 290, 1864, p. 43 ; Reichenh. Tauben, p. 162, Nuiit. pi. vii. 



fig. 81 (1862); Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 34 [Boeroe, Ternate]; 



Finsch, Neu-Giiin. p. 180 (1865) [Batjan]; 8ehl. Ned. Tijdschr. 



Z)«erZ;. iii. p. 264 (1866) [Amboina, Ceram] ; Gray, List Gallmce 



Brit. 3Ius. p. 21 (1867) ; Wallace, Malay Arch. ii. p. 148 (1869) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 255 (1870) ; Schl. Dierent. p. 213 (1872) : 



Bosenb. Beist. naar Geelvinkb. p. 8 (1875) ; Salvad. Ann. 3Ius. 



Civ. Genov. vii. p. 793 (1875) ; Bosmb. Malay. Archip. p. 407 



(1879) ; Sclil. Mus. Pays-Bas, viii. p. 75 (1880) ; Oustal. Ann. 



Sci. Nat. xi. p. 154 ('1881) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xviii. 



p. 7 (1882) : id. Orti. Paj). iii. p. 241 (1882) ; Bias. S)- Nehrk. Verh. 



Ges. Wien, xxxii. p. 430 (1882) [Amboina] ; Pleske, Bull. Ac. St. 



Pdtersb. xxix. p. 540 (1884) [Ternate] ; Salvad. Ayyiunte Orn. Pap. 



pt. iii. p. 195 (1891). 



Adult. Forehead olive, shading into rnfcsccnt olive-brown on the 

 short occipital crest ; mantle, lesser and shorter median vring-coverts 

 olive : scapulars and feathers of the middle of the back slate-grey, 

 more or less tinged with olive, and each with a wide bright chestnut 

 subterminal band ; the inner feathers of the inner median wing- 

 coverts similar to the scapulars, butt ipped with pale whitish grey ; 

 secondary-coverts olive, each with a very wide subterminal band of 

 bright chestnut ; primaries brownish black, the terminal part of the 

 outer web of the outer quills pale rufous buff, and the second to the 

 tilth quills with a buff spot on basal part of the outer web ; the 

 secondaries pale ochraceous brown, the innermost ones with a 



