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Dacelu Gaudichauil, Head, scapulae, and upper part of the 

 back, black : throat whitish rufescent : back and urqpygium cyu- 

 neous : pectus and abdomen rufous. — From New Guinea. 



Cuculus Guira, Latham, the Crotophaga Pirririgua of Vieiliot. 

 In its solitary habits this bird differs from the Anis, with which it 

 was associated by Vieiliot. 



Psiltacus erythropterus^ Latham ; a Platijcercus of Vigors. Only 

 one specimen was seen by INI M. Quoy and Gaiinard, which differed 

 considerably from the Ps. Melanotus of Shaw. 



Columba Pinoti, Head, neck, pectus, and greater part of the 

 back, cinereo-fuscons ; wings and tail slate-coloured; tail with a 

 transverse fascia: feet red. — From Rawak, one of the New 

 Guinea Islands. 



Columba cvnea^ Lath. 



Columba Pampusan, Body rufous ; bill blacli : tail with a trans- 

 rerse black fascia ; feet rather rufous. — From Guam, one of the 

 Marianne Islands. 



Columba Macquanie, Tail long : head, pectus, and uropygium, 

 cinereous blue; eyes naked, rather yellow : wings spotted with 

 ■whitish lunulcs. — This species is known only from a drawing pre- 

 sented to the expedition by Governor INIacquarrie. Another, 

 which was merely casually seen, is mentioned in a note under the 

 name of C. Juinieson, from the gentleman in whose poultry-yard 

 it was. 



Megapodius. Bill slender, weak, straight, equally broad as 

 high, flattened above at its base ; superior mandible longer than 

 the inferior, slightly curved at its extremity ; inferior mandible 

 straight, not hidden by the elongated margins of the superior : 

 Nostrils nearly oval, open, situated nearer to the apex than to the 

 base of the bill; nasal fossas long, covered by a membrane which 

 is furnished with feathers : circumference of the eye naked : neck 

 almost naked, furni;>hed with a few siattered feathers ; Feet large 

 and strong, placed backward on the body ; tarsus thick and long ; 

 toes four, much elongated ; the three front ones united at their 

 base by a small membrane, which is more evident between the 

 internal and middle toes than bctAvcen this latter and the exter- 



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