470 MEGAPODIID.E. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Chest mostly chestnut ; a large cylindrical wattle 



on each side of the nape ; top of the head 



covered with horny papilli bruijm, p. 470. 



B. Chest brownish black ; no -wattles on the nape ; 



top of the head thinly covered with black hair- 

 like feathers arfakianus, p. 470. 



1. Aepypodius bruijni. 



Talegallus bruijnii, Oustal. C. E. xc. p. 906 (1880) [Waigiou] ; id. 



Guide du Natiiraliste , nos. 9 & 10, p. 192 (1880) ; id. Bull. Assoc. 



Set. Fr. (2) i. p. 173 (1880) ; id. Le Nat. no. 41, p. 32.3 (1880) ; 



Eeiche7iow 8i 8chal. J.f. 0. 1881, p. 72. 

 TaUegalhis bruijnii, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, viii. p. 82 (1880). 

 Aepypodius bruijnii, 0«<sf(7/. Le Nut. no. 41 p. 323 (1880); Salmd. Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Genov.xvm. p. 8 (1882) ; id. Oni. Pap. iii. p. 2.53 (1882). 

 Talegallus (Aepypodius) bruijnii, Oustal. Ann. Set. Nat. xi. p. 38, 



figs. 33 [adultj, 34 [juv.] (1881). 



Adult. General colour above brownish black, darker on the 

 mantle and upper back, browner on the lower back, and dark 

 chestnut on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; chest and upper 

 breast mostly chestnut, shading into dirty grey on the rest of the 

 underparts, some of the feathers of the lower breast and belly being 

 also washed with chestnut. Head and neck almost entirely naked, 

 ■with the exception of a few hair-like feathers, which are most 

 numerous along the superciliary stripe and on the nape. An 

 elongate fleshy crest commences on the forehead at the base of the 

 culmen, elevated in front and spread out over the crown of the head 

 to the nape, the whole being covered wath close-set horny papilli ; 

 on either side of the nape there arises a large elongate wattle placed 

 at right angles to the neck, and from the basal part of the fore neck 

 there hangs down over the chest a single long subcylindrical wattle : 

 the colour of these wattles as well as the naked skin ou the head 

 and neck appears to have been red or orange ; bill and feet dusky ; 

 iris black. Total length 9 inches, wing ll'o, tail 5'7, tarsus 4-2. 

 (JBrit. Mus.) 



Total length IS'S inches, wing 12-4, tail 6'4, tarsus 3-8. (Oustalet.) 



Hah. Island of Waigiou. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Waigiou (A. A. Bruijn). Purchased. 



2. Aepypodius arfakianus. 



Talegallus arfakianus *, Sahad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. ix. pp. 333, 

 334 (1877) [chicks from Arfak Mts.] ; Oustal. Ann. Set. Nat. xi. 

 p. 53(1881). 



* I have allowed this name to stand though I tliiuk the evidence that 

 Talegallus arfakianus, Salvad., is the young of Aepypodius pyrrkopygius is by 

 no means conclusive. No doubt the rounded naaal opening is sufficient to 

 prove that these young birds really belong to the genus Aepypodius, and not to 

 Talegallus ; but I am not prepared to consider them identical with A. pyrrho- 

 pygiuii from the evidence before me. The system of giving names to very young 

 birds is most objectionable, and such names really ougbt not to be retained, 

 being only one degree better than names Ibunded ou eggs. 



