68 Zoological Society :— 
more slaty fuscous-black, especially on the head, neck, and breast ; 
quills fuscous black ; tarsi apparently of a pale horn-colour. 
The young differs from that of the former species in being 
also more of a slaty black on the head, neck, and breast, and the 
plumes of the wings sooty black, rather narrowly margined and 
banded with ochre. These marks are decidedly more prominent in 
this species than in the young of the last ; cheeks and throat ochra- 
ceous white ; the buff spot on the abdomen appears to be, when first 
hatched, buffy white. 
Gilolo (South). 
7. Mecaropius Forstent, Temm.; G. R. Gray & Mitch. Gen. 
of B. iii. pl. 124. 
Megapodius Freycineti, p., Temm. 
Top of the head, wings, and back olivaceous-brown, tinged with 
obscure rufous; front, sides of the head, neck, breast, and nape 
slaty fuscous; abdomen fuscous, slightly tinged with slate-colour. 
Bill pale horn-colour ; feet plumbeous black. 
Length 13", wings 8! 3!", tarsi 2!" 7!" 
Amboina; Ceram; Banda? 
8. Mrecapropius MAcGILLIVRAYI. 
Top and sides of the head, back, wings, tail, sides of the abdomen, 
and under tail-coverts deep olivaceous fuscous, tinged with obscure 
rufous ; neck, nape, some of the lesser wing-coverts, and beneath the 
body slaty black. Bill dark horn-colour ; feet pale (red) ; claws 
black. 
Length 13" 6'", wings 9", tarsi 2! Q!'', 
Louisiade Archipelago (Duchateau Isles and Pig Island). 
9. Mecaropivus La Perovst, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Uranie, t. 33. 
‘ Passegniat’ of the natives. 
Ladrone or Marian Islands (Tinian, Guam, and Rotta). 
10. Mecaropius GILBERTII. 
Megapodius rubripes, p., Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 737? 
« Megapodius of small size,” Wall. Ibis, 1860, p. 142. 
Top of the head, nape, neck, and wings olivaceous brown, tinged 
in part with obscure rufous ; front, sides of the head, collar round 
the neck, and beneath the body slate-colour. Bill fuscous horn- 
colour ; feet plumbeous black. 
Length 12" 3!, wings 8", tarsi 2! 2!" 
Celebes. 
11. Mecaroprius Cuminen, Dillw. Proc. Z. 8. 1851, p. 118, 
pl. 39. 
Philippine Islands (Manilla) ; Labuan ; Borneo (North-western) ? 
12. Mrecaropius GouLnil. 
Top of the head greyish-olivaceous brown ; back, wings, sides of 
