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they describe as being like pork, and excellent eating. They are ex- 
tremely difficult to obtain on account of their great timidity. The 
usual plan is to make a screen of boughs in the vicinity of their 
haunts, behind which the natives conceal themselves; and then, if 
not killed on the spot, they will scramble to their holes, from whence 
it is utterly impossible to dislodge them. 
Collingrove, South Australia, 
April 1861, 
List oF SPECIES COMPOSING THE Famity MEGAPODIID2 ; 
witH Descriptions or New SPECIES, AND SOME ACCOUNT 
OF THE Habits OF THE Species. By GrorGe ROBERT 
Gray, F.L.S., ere. , 
1. TaLeGaLytus Cuviert, Less. Voy. Coq. i. p. 716. 
Talegalla Cuvieri, Pr. B. Compt. Rend. 1856, t. 38. p. 876. 
New Guinea (Havre Dorey); Aru Islands. 
2. TALEGALLUS LATHAMI. 
New Holland Vulture, Lath. Hist. of B. i. p. 32. 
Alectura , Lath. Hist. of B. x. p. 455. 
Alectura Lathami, Gray, Zool. Mise. i. p. 3. 
Meleagris Lindsayi, James, Mem. Wern. Soe. vil. p. 473. 
Catheturus australis, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 206. 
Catheturus Cuvieri (Less.), Bl. 
Talegalla Lathami, Gould, B. of Austr. v. pl. 77. 
Catheturus Nove Hollandie (Lath.), Pr. B. Compt. Rend. 1856, 
p- 376. 
Brush Turkey. 
‘Wee-lah’ of the natives. 
Australia. 
3. MEGACEPHALON RUBRIPES, G. R. Gray & Mitch. Gen. of B. 
ii. pl. 123 (adult). 
Megacephalon Maleo, Temm.; Wallace, Ibis, 1860, p. 142. 
Megapodius rubripes, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. t. 25 (young). 
Celebes (Menado). 
4. Leipoa oceLLata, Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1840, p. 126; B. of 
Austr. v. pl. 78. 
‘Marrakko,’ ‘ Marra-ko,’ of the natives of S. Australia. 
‘ Ngow-o,’ ‘ Ngow,’ of the natives of W. Australia. 
5. Mecaronpius Freycinet1, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Uranie, t. 32. 
Juv. Alecthelia Urvilii, Less. Voy. Coq. i. p. 703, t. 37; Pr. B. 
Compt. Rend. 1856, p. 876. 
Island of Waigiou; Guébé, Boni; Batchian? and Kaisa Islands? 
6. Mrecapopivus Quoyit. 
Megapodius Freycineti, p., G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. 8. 1860, p. 362. 
Like the Batchian examples of the former species ; but it is of a 
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