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Genus MEGAPODIUS Qudv & Gaimard. 



38. Megapodius laperousi Quoy & Gaim. Megapode. 



Head French gray, mantle and under parts grayish black 

 shading into a dark olive brown on the wings, bill and legs 3-ellow, 

 naked skin on head red. Length 9.5, wing 7, tail 2.3, tarsus 2. 

 Hah. Marianas and Pelew Islands. 



Order COLUMB.'E-Pio-eons. 



a'. Tarsus feathered for more than half its length, general color 

 green, wings less than 5.19. Family Treronidcc , Fruit Pigeons. 



b'. Forehead and a spot at the base of the lower mandible 

 purple-red. Genus Ptilinopus. 



a-. Tarsus not feathered more than half its length, wing more 

 than 5.19. general color brown or gra}-. Family Peristcridcc , 

 Ground Pigeons. 



C". General color brown or olive bronze, length of tail 

 4 or less. Genus Phlogocnas. 



C". General color gray, length of the tail more than 5. 

 Genus Turtur. 



Genus PTII^INOPUS Eleiot. 



39. Ptilinopus roseicapillus (Less.). Totot. Rose- 

 crowned Fruit Pigeon. 



Coliiiiiba idifhaptlta. Less., Tr. d'Orii., iS:;i, p. 472. 



Colnniba. piirpiinita Kittl. (nee. Gni.), Kupfertaf, 183;,, Haft. III., p. 25. t. XXXIII., f. 2. 



Ptilopiis roseicapillus, Ost., Le Natural, 1889, p. 261; Wiglesw., Ibis, 1889, p. 584; Id. Aves 



Polynes., 1891, p. 48. 

 Ptilijiopus roseicapillus, Hartert, Nov. ZooL, 1898, V., p. 60; Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. ISIus., XII., 



p. 108. 



The Totot, as the natives call this beautifully colored fruit 

 pigeon, is common on the island, and its loud peculiar notes can 

 be heard at almost any time of day from the tall trees along the 

 roadside or in the forest, beginning in a low tone and slow, 

 gradually increasing in volume and rapidity, and then dying awaj' 

 again, like tot — tot— tot— tot-tot-tot-tot-tot— tot— -tot — tot, and like 

 most of the birds probably gets its native name from the sound it 

 makes. In making this sound they bend the head down so that 

 the bill touches the lower breast, and the top of the neck has the 

 appearance of being puffed up. One kept in a cage some time fre- 



