472 MEGAPODIID-E.' 



1. Megacephalon maleo. 



Maleo, Temm. PL Col. v. in text tj pi. 46 [no. 411] (1826) [Celebes]. 

 MefTrtpodius rubripes, Quay &,■ Gaim. (nee Temm.') Voy. Astrolabe, 



Zool. i. p. 239, pi. XXV. (18.33). 

 Megacephalon maleo, Hartl. Verzeichniss, p. 101 (1844) fdescr. 



nulla); Gray, List Gen. B. p. 103 (1855); Schl. Randl. Dierk. i. 



p. 389, Voff. pi. T. fig. 64 (1857) ; Wallace, Mis, 1860, p. 142 



[Coast of northern peninsula of Celebes, habits] ; Finsch, Neu- 



Guin. p. 180 (1866); Gray, List Gallinee Brit. Mus. p. 18 (1867) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 254 (f870) ; ScU. Dierent. p. 215, fig. ( 1872) ; 



Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 88 (1872) ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 



1873, pp 469. 640, 1875, p. 343; Sah-ad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. 



vii. p. 673 (1875) ; Briigg. Abh. nat. Ver. Breni. v. p. 88 (1876) ; 



Sakad. Ibis, 1876, p. 385; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p 139 [Saio, 



Sanghir Is.] ; Schl. Mus. Pay.-i-Bas, viii. p. 77 (1880) ; Oustal. 



Ann. Sci. Nat. xi. p. 2 (1881); Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 559 



[Wallace Bay, N. Celebes] ; Blasius, Ornis, 1888, p. 627 [Siao and 



Great Sanghir]. 

 Megapodius (Megacephaloma) maleo, Thienemann, Fortpjlanz. alter 



Vcigel, pt. i. p. 11, pi. iv. fig. 1 (1845).__ 

 Megacephalon rubripes. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 489 (1846) ; id. P. Z. S. 



1861, p. 88, 1864, p. 42 ; Wallace, Malay Arch. i. p. 413 (1869). 

 Megacephalon rufipes. Gray, Gen. B. iii. pi. 123 (1846). 

 Maerocephalon {sic) maleo, Miill. Archiv fiir Naturg. xii. pt. 1, 



p. 116 (1846). 



Adult male arid female. Head and neck naked with the exception 

 of a few scattered hair-like feather.s ; top of the head covered with 

 a large rounded casque ; plumage of the upper parts, chest, flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts dark brown, inclining to black on the 

 tail, which is very slightly glossed with dark green ; breast and belly 

 beautiful salmon-pink. Casque black ; bill at the base of the upper 

 mandible reddish brown, the under mandible and middle of the 

 upper mandible black, point of bill yellowish ; skin of the neck 

 blackish ; round the eyes of a fleshy yellowish colour ; legs bluish 

 black : feet and claws yellowish. Total length 22 inches, wing 11- 

 11-8, tail 5-7-6, tarsus' 3-.5. 



In a younr/er example with the casque less developed, the neck is 

 covered with brown and the chin and throat with white downy 

 feathers. 



In a still younger examjjle the casque is entirely absent, and the 

 top of the head is covered with brown feathers mixed on the side 

 with white. 



Hah. Same as that of the genus. 



a. Imm. st. Celebes. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



b, c. Imm. sk. Celebes. Gould Coll. 



d. d ad. sk. Menado, Celebes {van Duiven- Tweeddale Coll. 



hode). 

 e-g. 6 2 ad. sk. Menado, Celebes. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 h. Skeleton. Celebes [A. B. Meyer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



