100 MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE MOMOTID^. [Jan. 15, 



38. Megapodius duperreyi, Less. & Gam. 



Megapodius duperreyi, Less. & Gam. Bull. Sc. Nat. viii. p. 113 

 (1826), Dorey (type examined); Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. i. pt. 2, 

 p. 700, 703, pi. 36 (1826-1828). 



Megapode reinwardt, Temm. PL Col. livr. 37, genre Megapode 

 (1823). 



Megapodius rubripes, Temm. PL Col. 411 (25th October 1826 '), 

 Celebes ! Amboyna ! 



Megapodius reinwardtii (sic), Temm. apud Wagl. Syst. Av. Gen. 

 Megapodius, note (1827), descr. nulla. 



Megapodius reinwardtii, Wagl. Syst. Av. Gen. Megapodius, Ad- 

 ditamenta, sp. 4 (1827). 



Megapodius rufipes, S. Miill., Verh. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 23, 

 109 (1839-1844), Utanata. 



Megapodius, sp., Wall. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xx. pp. 473, 

 477 (1857), Ke, Am. 



[No. 230. Female: eyes dull red ; legs orange; bill horn-colour. 

 —J. M.-] 



A female (No. 230) from Wokan. 



39. NUMENIUS UROPYGIALIS, Gould. 



[No. 258. Wanumbai, male. — J. M.~\ 



40. Tringoides hypoleucus (Linn.). 



[No. 227. Dobbo, female : legs light green ; bill dark green ; eyes 

 hazel ; stomach contained insects. — J. M.~] 



7. On the Systematic Position of the Momotidse. 

 By A. H. Garrod, M.A., F.R.S., Prosector to the Society. 



[Eeeeived December 3, 1877.] 



In my paper on certain muscles of birds and their value in classifi- 

 cation 2 , I have made an error, which I desire to correct, with refer- 

 ence to the systematic position of the Momotidse. I there included 

 them with the CoraciidEe as part of a single family, characterized 

 among the Anomalogonatse by the possession of a nude oil-gland, 

 together with colic caeca. Since the time my paper appeared, I have 

 had the opportunity of dissecting several species of Momotidse, thanks 

 to the kindness of Mr. O. Salvin, including Momotus lessoni, M. 

 eequatorialis, M. brasiliensis (a specimen which had lived in the 

 Society's Gardens), Hylomanes gularis, and Eumomota superciliaris ; 

 and I find that in none of these are colic caeca present. 



Further, in Hylomanes gularis and Eumomota superciliaris I find 



1 I doubt whether this date, given by Crotch (Ibis, 1868, p. 500), for the pub- 

 lication of the 69th livraison of Temminck's ' Planches Coloriees,' is exact ; my 

 doubts rise from the fact, that M. rubripes is not mentioned by Wagler in his 

 ' Systema Avium,' published in 1827. 



* P. Z. S. 1874. p. 123. 



