igo LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY, 
II. THE DARK-BILLED BRUSH-TURKEY. TALEGALLUS FUSCI- 
ROSTRIS. 
Talegallus fuscirostris, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. ix. pp. 
332, 334 (1877); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. 
p. 466 (1893). 
Adult Male and Female.—Like 7° cuvier7, but the bill is sooty- 
brown instead of orange-red, and the naked skin on the sides 
of the head and neck is d/achish-grey, not reddish-brown. Total 
length, 21 inches; wing, 11-11°5; tail, 6°8—7; tarsus, 3°5—- 
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Range.—Southern New Guinea, extending north-eastwards 
to Geelvink Bay, and south to the Aru Islands. 
Habits—l'o Von Rosenberg we owe the only account we 
have been able to find of the habits of this bird. He says :— 
‘The ‘Kamur’ is not really rarer than the ‘ Djangul’ (JZega- 
podius duperrey?), but is not met with so frequently, owing to 
its solitary forest-haunting habits. Near Wonumbai I found a 
new nesting-mound of this bird situated in a ‘radura,’ and 
protected by the shade of a Zitie (Vitex moluccana). It was 
composed of earth mixed with sticks and leaves, the whole 
forming a truncate cone 11 feet high and 25 feet round the 
base. In the summit of the cone we found the openings of five 
burrows which went down perpendicularly to a depth of four 
feet, and were filled with earth. In four of these I found eggs 
which were placed vertically. As they were broken by the 
man who carried them, I was able to ascertain that they were 
in various stages of development, and I was thus able to verify 
the statement previously made to me by the natives, who affirm 
that the eggs are laid at intervals of one or more days. Inthe 
mound the thermometer rose to 93° Fahr., while the surround- 
ing atmosphere was only 85° in the shade. A few days later 
I found a second nesting-mound which, though it appeared to 
have been abandoned for a long time, was much larger than 
the first, and I was assured by my native guide that it was the 
