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Head and neck feathered, with the exception of a small 
space round the eye. 
Upper tail-coverts much shorter than the tail-feathers. 
First primary flight-feather intermediate in length between 
the seventh and eighth, and mzch longer than the tenth. 
Only one species is known. 
I. WALLACE’S PAINTED MEGAPODE. EULIPOA WALLACII. 
Megapodius wallacit, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 362, pl. clxxi. 
Eulipoa wallaci, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 
462 (1892). 
(Flare XXXVa.) 
Adult. —General colour of the upper-parts olive ; short crest 
rufous-olive ; inner median wing-coverts, showidew earners 
and middle of the back slate-grey, tinged with olive, and 
widely barred with bright chestnut, the former tipped with 
pale whitish-grey ; greater secondary-coverts olive, and simi- 
larly banded with chestnut ; lower back, rump, and under-parts 
dark grey, except the middle of the belly, which is white. 
Total length, 14 inches; wings, 7°6-8 ; tail, 2°6-3'2 ; tarsus, 
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Range. —Islands of Gilolo, Batchian, Ternate, Bourou, Ceram, 
and Amboina. 
Habits——‘‘ This: species,” writes Dr. A. R. Wallace, “ differs 
somewhat in its habits from the other members of the Family 
found in the Malay Islands. It resides generally in the hilly 
districts of the interior, like the Maleo (Aegacephalon maleo), 
and, like that species, comes down to the beach to deposit its 
eggs ; but instead of scratching a hole for them and covering it 
up again, the bird burrows into the sand to a depth of three 
or four feet obliquely downwards, and deposits its egg. at the 
bottom. It then loosely covers up the mouth of the hole, 
and is said by the natives to obliterate and disguise, by 
innumerable tracks and scratches, its own footmarks leading 
to the hole. Its offspring is then left to make its way into 
