6. AEPYP0DIU8. 469 



brown ; tail almost black. Skin of head and neck pink-red, 

 thinly sprinkled with short hair-like blackish-brown feathers ; 

 wattle bright yellow, tinged with red where it unites with the red 

 of the neck * ; bill black ; iris and feet brown. Total length 25-5 

 inches, wing 12, tail 9-8-10-2, tarsus 4-4-2. 



In this species the middle pair of tail-feathers are not very much 

 longer than the outer pair, while the fifth pair are the longest. 



JIab. Same as that of the genus. 



a, b. (J ad. et Australia. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



imin. St. 



c. Ad.sk. Australia. A. Cunningham, Esq. [P.]. 



(Tj-pe of the species.) 



d. cJ ad. sk. Cape York. ' Challenger ' Exped. 

 e,f. Ad.sk. Cape York {Cockerell ^ Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Thorpe), 



y, h. Ad. sk. Port Molle, Queensland, Voyage of H.M.S. 



Dec. (J. Macyillivray). ' Rattlesnake.' 



»'. Pull. st. Bred in the Zoological Zool. Sac. CoU. 



Gardens, 



k, I. Juv. skeletons. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



6. AEPYP0DIU3. 



Ij-pe. 



Aepypodius, Oustal. Le Nat. no. 41, p. 323 (1830). ... A. bruijni. 

 Aepipodius, Salvad. Aygiunte Orn. Pap. pt. iii. p. 195 



(1891) A. arfakianus. 



Head and neck mostly naked ; a pendulous wattle at the base of 

 the fore neck ; and a tieshy crest extending from the base of the 

 culmen to the crown. 



Nostrils round. 



Tail moderately long, composed of 16 feathers, the middle pair 

 shorter than the 2nd and 3rd pairs, giving the tail when expanded 

 a peculiar O-shape. 



Upper tail-coverts short, and dark chestnut. 



1st primary much shorter than the 2ud, which is about equal to 

 the 10th ; 7th or 8th slightly the longest. 



Tarsi and feet rather large ; front of the tarsus covered with a 

 single row of wide scutes ; only the last two or three being divided 

 down the middle. 



Range. New Guinea and Waigiou. 



* The wattle at the base of the neck which Gould tells us is present in both 

 sexes, tliough smaller in the female, is not apparent in the majority of our 

 specimens. But in an example from Cape York it is well developed, and in 

 the dried skin takes a paraohute-like form surrounding the entire neck, being 

 if anything more largely developed towards the back of the neck, whereas in 

 Gould's figure it is represented a« a pendulous wattle on the fore part of the 

 neck. 



