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once (March) got a young individual which, I do not doubt, 

 belongs to this species, the existence of which the natives as- 

 sured me they were acquainted with. This young one had the 

 head and nape olive-brownish -, mantle, back, uropygiura, and 

 wing-coverts ii'regularly banded with brownish red ; chin yel- 

 lowish ; throat olive-brownish ; breast and belly somewhat 

 lighter, and shading into red-brown; wings greyish brown; 

 bill dark horn-colour ; feet black. 



Hr. van Musschenbroek informs me that he got specimens 

 at Tateli, seven miles from Menado. 



Frequent on a small island near the mainland of Celebes, 

 oflP Paguatt (district of Gorontalo), in the Gulf of Tomini 

 (September), whence I procured a series of specimens. 

 The natives told me that it constructs a mound about two 

 feet high, of leaves and bushes, in which the eggs are buried. 

 I got the species also from the Sangi Islands. 



Megacephalon maleo, Temm. 



The natives do not call this bird " Maleo," but " Moleo." 



I met with it near Kaliuaong on the sea-shore (North-east 

 Minahassa) in May, and on the sand-volcano Soputan (about 

 6000 feet) in June. It occurs nearly everywhere on the sea- 

 shore in North Celebes ; but I did not hear of it in the Gulf of 

 Tomini, where it nevertheless probably also occurs. On the 

 island Siao, Sangi group, it is a common bird; specimens 

 from there agree with the Celebean ones. The bird is often 

 brought alive to Menado, as well as the eggs. 



Casque black ; bill at the base of the upper mandible red- 

 dish brown, of the under mandible and the 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. Under surface of 

 plumage an intense salmon- colour, which soon fades away 

 in the cabinet. 



I made a trip in a small sailing-vessel from Menado round 

 the north coast, through Limbe Strait, to Kema. On the 

 north coast, in the east of Likupaug, before passing into 

 Lirabe Strait, on May 8th, 1871, I entered the following notes 

 in my diary : — 



