Mr. G. R. Gray on the Family Megapodiide. 69 
the abdomen, and beneath the tail rufous-olivaceous brown ; sides of 
the head, neck, nape, and beneath the body slate-colour. Bill pale 
horn-colour ; tarsi pale red ; toes blackish, claws black. 
Length 11" 6', wings 8" 3!", tarsi 1!" 11!", 
Lombock. 
13. MEGAPODIUS NICOBARIENSIS, Bl. Journ. A. S. B. xv. 
pp. 52, 372. 
Nicobar Islands. 
14. Mecaroprius Re1nwarprtit, Wagl. Syst. Av. Megap. Addit. 
sp. 4. 
Megapodius Duperreyii, Less. Bull. Univ. des Sci. no. 5. p. 113; 
Voy. Cog. t. 36. 
Megapodius rubripes, Temm. Pl. Col. 411; Wagl. Isis, 1829, 
p. 737; Less. Tr. d’Orn. p. 479. 
‘ Mangoipe’ of the Papuans. 
New Guinea (Havre Dorey, River Oetanata); Amboina?; Aru 
and Ké Islands. 
15. MreGaropius Tumutus, Gould, Proc. Z. 8. 1842, p. 20; B. 
of Austr. v. pl. 79. 
‘Oooregoorga’ of the natives. 
Australia (North); Islands in Endeavour and Torres’ Straits. 
16. Mecapopius Watuacer, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. 8. 1860, 
. 362, pl. 171. 
East Gilolo. 
17. Mecapoptius Srarrt. 
? G.R. Gray, List of B. of the Trop. Isl. B.M. 
aS) 
Megapodius 
46. 
Egg dusky white. Length 3" 1’, width 1" 1!", 
Samoan or Navigator’s Islands (Rev. J. B. Stair, 1847). 
18. Mecaropius BurnaByt. 
Megapodius ——? G. R. Gray, List of B. of the Trop. Isl. B. M. 
46. 
Egg pinkish stone colour. Length 3! 1'", width 1! 9!", 
Hapace Islands (Lieut. Burnaby, R.N.). 
These two latter species are only known by a specimen of the egg 
from each locality having been presented to the British Museum. I 
have here provisionally placed a specific name for each ; having little 
doubt that they will prove distinct species from each other, and even 
from all the other known species. 
19. ? Mecaropius ? ANDERSONI. 
Tetrao australis, Anders. MSS. 
“ Fusco nigroque ; pedibus nudis.”’ 
New Caledonia. 
