MEGAPODITD^. 143 



Gallus aesculapii, Gandry ^ 

 Founded upon the tarso-metatarsus of a male, which is somewliat larger than 

 that of G. sonnerati. 

 Hah. Europe (Greece). 

 From the Lower Pliocene of Pikermi (Attica). 



Family MEGAPODIID^. 



All the larger Australian Galiina3 belong to this family. 



Genus TALEGALLA, Lesson \ 

 Calcgalla latijamt, Gray\ 

 Syn. Alectura lathami, Gray ^. 



The undermentioned specimen is provisionally referred to this, 

 the largest existing species. 

 Ilah. Australia. 



43879. The left coracoid, wanting the two extremities ; from the 

 Pleistocene cavern-deposits of the Wellington Valley, New 

 South Wales. This specimen, which undoubtedly belongs 

 to a Gallinaceous bird, agrees in all essential characters 

 with the coracoid of a smaller individual in the Museum, 

 and may be safely referred to the present genus. 

 Presented by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1870. 



Suborder XII. FULICARIyE. 



Schizognathous birds, in which the angle of the mandible is trun- 

 cated, the coracoid has a large subclavicular process, and the delto- 

 pectoral crest and facet for the pectoralis minor in the humerus are 

 normal. 



The hind limbs are comparatively long, and the wings very short 

 and feeble. 



The tarso-metatarsus, as in most Gallinae, has the external tibial 

 cup on a lower level than the internal one ; the second trochlea is 

 shorter than the fourth ; the talon is complex but variable ; the 



' Comptes Eendus, toI. liv. p. 504 (1861). See also 'Animaux Fossilea et 

 Geologie de I'Attique.' p. 312. 



- Zool. Voy. Coquille, vol. i. p. 71.5 (1826). — Tallegallus. 



" Zool. Miscell. no. 1, p. 3 (1831). — Alectura. * Loc. cit. 



