IX.] 



NESTING HABITS OF THE MALEO. 



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as do most of the Australian and Papuan "brush-turkeys." At 

 a certain season of the year^ the birds come down in large 



THE MALEO. {Megacephcilon maleo.) 



numbers from the forests of the interior to the sea, almost always 



^ Mr. Wallace ("Malay Archipelago," \k 265) says "the months of August and 

 September," but, according to the natives, the period was much more extended. 



