4. TALEGAT.I.US. 465 



1. Talegallus cuvieri. 



Tnlefrallus cuvieri, Less. Voi/. Cotpiill", Zoo/. Atl pi. 38 (1826) ; id. 

 Voy. Coquil/e, Zool. i. pt. ii. p. 71(5 (18:?8) [Uorey, New Guinea] ; 

 Quoi/ ^- Gaim. J'oi/. Antro/r/he, Atl. Zool. Oi.^eaur, pi. 2o. tig'.^. o, 6 

 [st.-rnum" (18;5.3) I Les^. ComjiL de Buff., Ois. p. l'o4, pi. 8.' tig. 2 

 (1840); Grai/, Gen. Ii. iii. p. 489 (184ij;; id. Cat. B. Xeio Guin. 

 pn. 49 [part., New Guinea], 61 (1809) ; id. P.Z. S. 18o9, p. 159 

 [Dorev, New (iuinea^, 1861, pp. 288, 438 Tpai't.] ; Bnchenh. Taiihen, 

 p. 9, pi. 277. fig. lo38 (1862) : Gray, P.Z. S. 18(i4, p. 42 [part.] ; 

 Fivsc/i, Neii-Guin. p. 179 (I860) [part.] ; -SV7i/. Ned. Tijdschr. iJierk. 

 iii. p. 259 (1866) [part.]; Gray, Litt GalUnfc Brit. Mns. p. 18 

 (1867) [part.]: id. Ilund-I. B. ii. p. 2o4 (1870) [part.]; Meyer, 

 SB. Ak. Wicn, Ixix. pp. 74, 80 (1874) [part., Andai, Passim, 

 Nappan, Geelvink Bay] ; Rosenh. lieist. naar Geelvinkb. p. 84 

 (1875) [Andai, New Guine.a] ; Snlvad. Ann. Mux. Civ. Genov. 

 vii. p. 792 (1875), ix. pp. 327, 334 (1877) [Salawatti, Warbusi, 

 Aiiibei'baki, Dorei-Hum, and Ranioi\ x. p. 162 (1877); Schl. 

 Notes Leyd. Mu.i. i. p. 159 (1879) [part.]; Rosenb. Malay. 

 Archip. p. 562 (1878-9) ; D'Alb. Nuoia Guin. p. 582 (18S0J ; 

 Omtal. Ann. Sci. Nat. xi. p. 43 (1881) ; Salmd. Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Genov. xviii. p. 8 (1882) [Has, Sorong'l ; id. Orn. Pap. iii. 

 p. 245 (1882); Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 664 [Salawatti and 

 Dorev Bav]. 



Tale^alla cuvieri, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 186 (1828) : id. TraitS 

 d'brn. p. 526 (1831); Sclat. Journ. P. Linn. Soc.il p. 168 

 (1858): Walhce, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 165; Ro.senb. J. f. 0. 1864, 

 p. 135 [part]. 



Tallogalla cuvieri, Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 252 

 (1863) [part.]. 



Tallegallus cuvieri, Schl. Mus. Pay.^-Ras, viii. p. 80 (1880) [part.]. 



Adult male and female. General colour of the plumage black ; 

 head and back of the neck thinly covered with narrow (almost hair- 

 like) feathers, which are recumbent on the crown ; chin and throat 

 thinly covered with brownish-white or dirty-white feathers : iris 

 yellow or yellowish red ; hill orange-red (yellow in dried specimens) ; 

 naked skin on the sides of the head and throat reddish brown ; legs 

 and feet orange or yellow. Total length 20-21 inches, wing 10-8, 

 tail 6-3, tarsus 3-;3-3o. 



In a yoHiiga' e.rample the back and sides of the neck are mostly 

 dark chestnut ; the outer primaries extremely pointed ; some of 

 the secondaries marked with rufous buff along the margin of 

 the outer web ; and most of the wing-coverts and the feathers 

 of the mantle indistinctly edged with dull rufous ; the upper 

 mandible is dusky, especially towards the base, and the top of 

 the head, chin, and throat more thickly covered with feathers than 

 in the adult. 



In a still younijer e.rantple the top of the head is mostly covered 

 with brownish-coloured downy feathers ; while on the shoulders 

 and the middle of the neck and chest patches of the reddish-brown 

 feathers of the first plumage are still intermixed with the dark 

 plumage of the adult. 



Hah. Western New Guinea, Salawatti, Mysol, Gilolo. 

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