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-ness, and uttering their cry more loudly than usual, stopping 
short suddenly, and again starting off in pursuit.. The cry con- 
sists of one or two shrill notes uttered at intervals, and ending 
in a hurried tremulous cry, repeated five or six times. The 
noise made by this AZegapodius while scratching among the 
dead leaves for food may sometimes be imitated with such 
success as to bring the bird running up within gunshot. When 
suddenly forced to rise from the ground, it flies up into a tree, 
and remains there motionless, but exceedingly vigilant, ready 
to start on the approach of anyone, but on other occasions it 
trusts to its legs to escape. Its food is entirely procured on 
the ground, and consists of insects and their larvee (especially 
the pupz of ants), small snails, and various fallen seeds and 
fruits.” 
X. DUPERREY’S MEGAPODE. MEGAPODIUS DUPERREYI. 
Megapodius duperreyit, Less. and Garn. Bull. Sci. Nat. viii. p. 
Hits 26), loess. Voy. Coquille,” 1. ptt. p, 7o0,7plage 
(1828) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 454 
(1893). 
Megapodius rubripes, TYemm. Pl. Col. v. pl. 46 [No. 411] 
(1826). 
Megapodius reinwardtu, Wagler, Syst. Av. Addit. Megapodius, 
paso, Sp. 4 (7627) > 1d. Isis, 1820; p..736. 
Megapodius tumulus, Gould, P. Z.S. 1842, p. 20; id. B. Austr. 
wept. vin pl. 70 (1842); Gray, P. Z.-S. 1862, p. 290, o: 
XXXIV. 
Megapodius gouldt and M. amboinensis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, 
PP: 299, 293. 
Megapodius assimilis, Masters, P. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. i. p. 59 
(1887). 
Adult Male and Female.—A well-developed brown crest; mantle 
grey ; back and wings olive-brown ; lower back and rump dark 
chestnut; under-parts smoky-grey ; sides and flanks mostly 
