40 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF THE 



GOURA CORONATA. 



Columba coronata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 282. 

 Goura coronata, Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. i. p. 120. 

 Lophyrus indints, Stepli. Gen. Zuol. xiv. ]). 2!)4. \A. 19. 

 " Crown Bird," Bougainv. Voyage, Engl. edit. p. 329. 

 New Britain ; New Ireland. 



DiDUNCULUS STRIGIROSTRIS. 



Gnathodon strigirostris, Jard. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1845, xvi.p. l".'). 

 pi. 9. 



Diduncidus strigirostris, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped. p. 209. pi. .'34. 



P/eiodiis strigirostris, Reiehenb. 



Gould, B. of Anstr. pi. 76 ; G. R. Gray and Mitch. Gen. of B. ii. 

 pi. 120*. 



• Manu-mea ' of the natives. 



Samoan or Navigators' Islands (Upoln). {Mus. Jardine.) 



Megapodid^e. 



Megapodius La Perousii. 



Megapodius La Peroitsii, Quoy&Gaim.Voy.l'Uranie, p. 127. t.33. 

 ' Sassegniat ' of the natives. 

 Ladrone or Marian Islands (Tinian). 



Megapodius ? B.M. 



The egg only of a Megapodius has been brought from the Sa- 

 moan or Navigators' Islands ; but no example of the perfect bird 

 has yet been recorded by naturalists or others as from that locality. 



Megapodius 1 B.M. 



The egg only of a Megapodius has also been obtained from the 

 Ilapace Islands ; l)ut the perfect bird is unknown to naturalists. 



Phasianid.t.. 



Gallus Bankiva, var. 



Gallus Bankiva, var., G. R. Gray. 



Gallus bankiva, var. tahiticiis, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 180. fig. 



Society, Tonga, Feejee, and Sandwich Islands, New Caledonia, &c. 



Struthionid^. 

 Casuarius Bennettii. B.M. 



Casuarius Bennettii, Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1857, p. 2C8. pi. 129; 

 Benn. Proc. Z. S. 1859, p. 32. 

 ' Mooruk ' of the natives. 

 New Britain. 



