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THE MALEOS,. GENUS MEGACEPHALON. 
Megacephaton, ‘Vemm.; Gray, Gen. B. ili. p. 489 (1846). 
Type, JZ. maleo, Hartl. 
Upper tail-coverts much shorter than the tail-feathers. 
Head naked, covered by a /arge gourd-shaped helmet; a 
rounded tubercle behind each nostril ; neck and throat thickly 
covered with hair-like feathers. 
Nostril a rather large rounded oval. 
Tail composed of e¢ghteen feathers and shaped as in Cathe- 
turus and Aepypodius. 
Wing as in Aepypodius. 
Legs (metatarsi) and feet rather long, the former covered 
in front with small hexagonal scales. 
Only one species is known. 
I. THE MALEO. MEGACEPHALON MALEO, 
Maleo, Temm. Pl. Col. V., in text to Pl. 46 [No. 411] (1826). 
Megacephaton mateo, Hartl. Verzeichniss, p. ror (1844) ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 472 (1893). 
(Plate XXXVI.) 
Adult Male and Female—Helmet black ; naked skin round eye 
yellowish flesh-colour ; upper-parts, chest, flanks, thighs, and 
under tail-coverts dark brown; breast and belly beautiful 
salmon-pink ; legs bluish-black ; toes yellowish. ‘Total length, 
22 inches ; wing, 11-11°8; tail, 5°7-6; tarsus, 3°5. 
In quite young examples the helmet is absent and the 
crown covered with mottled brown and white feathers. 
Range.—Celebes and the Sanghir Islands. 
Habits-—Dr. A. R. Wallace writes :—‘“ This interesting bird 
is confined, so faras I am aware, to the Northern Peninsula of 
Celebes, and to the littoral portions of the island, never being 
found in the mountain ranges or in the elevated district of 
Tondano. It seems particularly to abound in the forests 
