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] SiHTFELDT, Material for a Study af the Megapodiidrc. 25 



In cnunieratinfi; tlir >i)ccini(ns in tlic collcctinn of tlic United 

 States National Musriini, I lia\r onlx- taken into eonsideration 

 the skins in the cases in the " R.m.i^e," \e.. aiul not ;niy wliieli 

 may or nui\' not l)e lonnd in the nionntcd t«(llection of the 

 " exhibition series." 



Among the former I find tlu'ei' specimens of Cathcturus lulliioiii, 

 namely : — 



No. 213,164, ?. — Nat. Zool. Park. (Died 20th July, 1910.) 

 No. 213,167, ?. — Nat. Zool. Park. (Died 21st November, 1910.) 

 No. 152,711 (sex ?) — N.S. Wales. Old label broken and mutilated. 



Second label :— U.S. Expl. Ex., Capt. C. Wilkes, U.S.N. 



Talegalliis lathaiili (Gray). The Brush-Turkey. T. R. 



Peale. P. 484. Australia. [This specimen (Plate VI., 



fig. 10) has been mounted, and is evidently an old museum 



relic. No date, no exact locahty, &c.] 

 Of these three specimens, No. 213,167 is the specimen which was 

 used to make the figure (3) for Plate III. of the present article. 

 It has a length of about 25.5 inches. The bill is black, and feet 

 horn colour. Exposed nostril circular. Head and neck bare, 

 very thinly covered with fine, narrow, and short feathers, thickest 

 on top of head and back of neck. General plumage black ; 

 feathers of lower breast and abdomen emarginated with pale grey. 

 Upper tail coverts plumaceous. Back and tail feathers, above, 

 glossy. Tail rounded, composed of fourteen feathers. Quills of 

 primaries black and very strong. Claws pale horn colour, much 

 worn from scratching, and inclined to be deformed (twisted). 



Ogilvie-Grant says: — "Skin of head and' neck pink-red, thinly 

 sprinkled with sliort, hair-like, blackish-brown feathers ; wattle 

 bright vellow, tinged with red where it unites with the red of the 

 neck ; bill black ; iris and feet brown " {loc. cit., p. 468). 



The bird before me has no " wattle," and that appendage may 

 only be found in the male, though I do not know this to be a fact, 

 as i have never seen the male, either dead or ahve. 



Barnard's Brush-Turkey is not represented in the United States 

 National Museum collection, and I have never had the opportunity 

 to observe it. 



.Epypodil's (Oust.) 

 (Ogilvie-Grant, i.e., p. 469.) 

 So far as I am aware, there are two species in this genus, viz. : — 



1. .E. bniijni (Oust.), Waigiou. ("Cat. Brit. Mus.," p. 470.) 



2. /E. arfarkianus (Salvad.), N.W. and S.E. New Guinea. [Loc. 



cit., p. 470.) 



Of these two, the National Museum has but the first represented 

 in a skin ; it is a fairly good specimen. 

 No. 146,767 (sex ?) — Waigiou. Museum Boucard. Coll., Bruijn. 



This specimen may be described as follows : — General plumage 

 black ; breast, abdomen, and exposed parts of feathers deeply 

 tinged with reddish-brown. Head naked, very sparsely scattered 

 over with short, fine, hair-like black feathers, chiefly on top of 



