10 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Genus MEGAPODIUS Gaimard, 18-?3. 



Characters same as tliose given for the Family. 



L MEGAPODIUS CUMINGI Dilhvyn. 

 PHILIPPINE MEGAPODE. 



Megapodius cumingii Dillwyn, Proe. Zool. Soc. (1851), 119, pi. .39. 



Megapodius pusillus Twkeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 765, pi. 78 (juv. ). 



Megapodius diUicyni Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 766. 



Megapodius cumingi Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 449; Meyer 

 and WiGLESWORTH, Birds of Celebes (1898), 2, 671, pi. 41, fig. 1; 

 Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 12; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 

 16; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 7. 



Ou-cong', Calayan, Camiguin N. ; ta-hon', Luzon, Mindoro, Cagayancillo, and in 

 general. 



Balabac (Steere, Everett) ; Bantayan {McGregor) ; Basilan (Steere, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; 

 Camiguin N. (McGregor) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns d Worcester) ; Cresta de Gallo 

 (McGregor) ; Fuga (Whitehead, McGregor) ; Luzon (Cuming, Heriot, White- 

 head) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Mindanao (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp.. 

 Bourns d Worcester, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (McGregor, Porter); Palawan 

 (Everett, Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Romblon 

 (Bourns d Worcester) ; Samar (Bourns d Worcester) ; Sibutu (Everett) ; Sibuyan 

 (Bourns d Worcester) ; Sulu (Bourns d Worcester, Platen) ; Tablas (Bourns d 

 Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Wo7-cester) ; Ticao (McGregor). Celebean 

 Islands and islands of northwestern Borneo. 



Adult. — Top of head dark blue-gray with a wash of olive-brown; a 

 narrow gray collar on hind neck; rest of upper parts, including exposed 

 parts of folded wing, rich olive-brown; lower parts dark blue-gray. Iris 

 brown; bill yellow, dusky at base and about nostrils; legs and nails 

 black or dark brown; skin about eye varies from bright red to almost 

 black. A male from Cagayancillo measures, 340 in length; wing, 230; 

 tail, 72.4; tarsus, 62; middle toe with claw, 57; bill from nostril, 14. 

 A female from the same island measures, 340 in length; wing, 235; 

 tail, 70 ; tarsus, 58 ; middle toe with claw, 57 ; bill from nostril, 14. 



Young. — A, bird measuring but 165 in length, taken in Calayan, Oc- 

 tober 7, 1903, bears a general resemblance to the adult but the superoi-bital 

 space, lores, chin, and throat are closely feathered; forehead, chin, and 

 area below eye dull yellowish brown; throat, sides of neck, and breast 

 dull brown; middle of abdomen dark ochraceous brown; feathers of 

 upper- parts dark brown, obscurely edged with olive-brown on back, 

 scapulars, and wing-coverts; plumage, except remiges and rectrices, soft 

 and decomposed. 



Nest. — The incubation mound built by this species is fully described 

 below. The eggs are prized by the natives for food; both the eggs and 



