78 CIIAHI.ES HOSi:. 



ORDER GALLIFORMES. 



1. Gallus gallus. 



Gallus gallus (Linn.), Ogilvie Graul, Cat. IL lirit. 

 iVi/s.. XXll, |). :ri.4 (1893). 



Gallus bankiva (Temm.), Wald., Trans. Zool. Soc.,\\, 

 p. 86 (1872). 



Gallus ferrugineus (Gm.), Meyer et Wiglesvv., Ab- 

 handl. K. Zool. Mus. Dt'fi^dpn, 189l-9o, n' 8, p. IG 

 (1895); ml., D. Celehes, p.GOT (1898). 



a. cf ad. Riiriikan (3 300 feet), Sept. 



b. 9 ad. MoLint Masarang (3 000 feet), Oct. 



I had a long disciission with tlie iiative hiinters as to 

 wbether this Jungle-fowl was an indigenous species to the 

 mountain, or whether it was only a domestic fowl run 

 wild. They were, however, insistent that the species was 

 not domesticated, and as Mr. Ogilvie Grant has identified 

 my specimens as triie Jungle-fowl, I believe that we may 

 consider the species to be indigenous to Celebes. 



*i. llegapodius cumiiij»i. 



Megapodius Cumingi (Dillwyn),Wald., t. c, p. 29 ; 

 Grant, Cat. B. lirit. Mus., XXII, p. 449 (1893); Meyer et 

 Wiglesw., t. 6'., p. 10; iid., B. Celebes, p. 671 (1898). 



.«. 9 J^'V. Menado, \ov. 



Only a single specimen was procured near Menado. 

 This species is also found on the islands otT the coast of 

 Northern Rorneo, but in Celebes it occurs on the main- 

 land. It is such an exceedingly shy bird that it is seldom 

 shot, and it only moves in the morning and evening. The 

 natives catch the birds by the (( Jerat » trap, which con- 

 sists of a spring forined by bending over a sapling with 

 a noose at the end. In Iheir hunt for Megapodes and other 

 ground-birds, the natives build a low hedge of under- 



