1877.] 



THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 



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59. turtur dussumieri (147). 



60. Chalcophaps indica (150). 



[Cebu, male and female, April. Iris brown, bill orange-red, legs 

 dark red, feet dull carmine.] 



61. TURNIX NIGRESCEJ^, 0. Sp. 



[Cebu, female, April. Iris yellowish white, bill chrome-yellow, 

 legs chrome-yellow, feet tinged with green.] 



While T.fasciata of Luzon chiefly differs from T. pugnax, ex Java, 

 in its smaller dimensions and its broad uniform rufous nape, this 

 Zebu bird somewhat exceeds T. pugnax in size, and is readily dif- 

 ferentiated by the ground-colour of the crown, back, and uropygium 

 being blackish brown instead of rufous. Like T. fasciata it also 

 possesses a broad rufous nuchal collar. 



62. Megapodius pusillus, n. sp. (Plate LXXVIII.) 



[Cebu, male, March. Iris dark hazel, bill dark brown, legs very 

 dark brown, nearly black.] 



The upper surface rich ruddy yellowish (almost golden) brown. 

 Uropygium and upper tail-coverts and rectrices brown. Chin and 

 throat dirty yellowish brown, the feathers being light grey at their 

 insertion. Neck and upper breast slate-grey tipped with ruddy 

 brown. Lower breast, abdomen, and flanks slate-grey, but faintly 

 washed with ruddy brown. Ventral region paler grey tinged with 

 ocbreous brown. Thigh-coverts distinct ruddy, almost rusty, brown. 

 Under tail-coverts dull ashy brown. Primaries uniform brown. 

 Secondaries margined externally with the hue of the back. Ter- 

 tiaries and wing-coverts hke the back. Sides of head and forehead 

 slightly paler than the head. 



Wing 6-25, tarsus 1-70, middle toe without claw 1, culmen 

 0-64. 



This small Megapode has the ophthalmic region, throat, and neck 

 densely clothed, and belongs to a tvpe different from M. cumingi. 



Mr. Sharpe has lately (P. Z. S. 1875, p. Ill) separated the Bor- 

 nean Megapode from the then only known Philippine species, and 

 given the title of M. lowii to the Bornean (Labuan) species. That 



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