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feathers ; sides of the head, throat, and fore-part of the neck 
mostly naked. No wattle at the base of the neck. 
Bill stout and strong. 
Nostrils ozad. 
Tail rather long, rounded, and composed of szxvfeen feathers, 
the middle pair being the longest. 
~ First primary flight-feather shorter ‘han the tenth ; fifth and 
sixth slightly the longest. 
Legs (metatarsi) and feet large; the fore-part of the legs 
covered with a single row of large scales. 
Claws shorter, and more rounded than in ALegapodius and 
Eulipoa, the claw of the middle toe being shcrter than the 
upper mandible, measured from the posterior wall of the nos- 
tril to the tip. 
I, CUVIER’S BRUSH-TURKEY. TALEGALLUS CUVIERI. 
Talegallus cuvieri, Lesson, Voy. “ Coquille,” Zool. Atl. pl. 38 
(1620) 1d. Voy. “Coquille,” Zool. 1. pt. i. p, 716 (1828); 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 465 (1893). 
Adult Male and Female.—General colour black ; head and back 
of the neck thinly covered with zarrow, almost hair-like, feathers, 
which are vecumbent on the crown; throat sparsely covered with 
brownish-white feathers. Bill ovange-red (yellow in dried speci- 
mens) ; naked skin on the sides of the head, and neck reddish- 
brown ; legs and feet orange or yellow. Total length, 20-21 
inches ; wing, 10°8; tail, 6°3 ; tarsus, 3°3-3°5. 
Younger exaniples have the back and sides of the neck mostly 
dark chestnut. 
Range.— Western New Guinea, and the Islands of Salawatti, 
Mysol, and Halmahera. 
Habits Von Rosenberg states that this species is not to be 
met with on the mountains, its place there being taken by - 
Aepypodius arfakianus. Nothing further has been published 
regarding its habits, 
