1878.] DR. M. WATSON ON CHLAM YDOPHORUS TRUNCATUS. 6/3 



27. Macropygia browni, Scl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 110. 



I am glad to receive a second example of this fine species from 

 the Duke-of-York group. 



Dr. Salvadori writes me that he suspects that Turuccena crassi- 

 rostris, Gould (P. Z. S. 1856, p. 136), may be the young of Macro- 

 pygia browni. I have examined Mr. Gould's typical specimen of the 

 former species now in the British Museum ; but although I believe 

 it is, no doubt, the young of an allied species of Macropygia, I do not 

 think it can belong to M. browni, as it is so much smaller in size. 



29. Nyctocorax caledonicus (Gm.) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 

 ii. p. 311. 



An adult of this Night-Heron from the Duke-of-York group is 

 marked : — "Irides yellow ; legs dusky reddish pink ; bare space about 

 eyes lavender. — G. B." 



30. MEGAPODIUS EREMITA. 



Megapodius eremita, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 830. 



M. hueskeri, Cab. et Reich. J. f. O. 1876, p. 326 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 

 1877, p. 113. 



M. rubrifrons, Scl. P. Z.S. 1877, p. 556. 



Prof. Salvadori lias recently examined the typical specimens of M. 

 eremita from the Echicpjier Islands, M. hueskeri from New Hanover, 

 and M. rubrifrons from Admiralty Island, and pronounces them 

 to be identical. 



3. On the Male Generative Organs of Chlamydophorus trun- 

 catus and Dasypus sexcinctus. By M. Watson, M.D., 

 Professor of Anatomy, Owens College, Manchester. 



[Eeceived June 11, 1878.] 



(Plate XLIII.) 



1. CHLAMYDOPHORUS TRUNCATUS. 



The anatomy of Chlamydophorus truncatus has formed the subject 

 of elaborate monographs by Hyrtl 1 , Macalister 2 , and others 3 ; and 

 little remains to be said regarding such parts of the animal as have 

 been fully investigated by these anatomists. On looking over their 

 essays, however, I find that, with regard to the male genera- 

 tive organs, we possess almost no reliable information. Professor 

 Hyrtl's specimen was a female ; and although that anatomized by 

 Professor Macalister was of the opposite sex, his reference to the 

 male organs is sufficiently meagre to justify me in giving a detailed 

 description of these from two male specimens of this rare mammal 

 which have lately come into my hands. 



1 Denksckriften der kais. Akad. Wien, is. 1855. 



2 Trans. Koy. Irish Acad. 1875, p. 219. 



Harlan, Lond. Zool. Joiu-n. 1825; Atkinson, Journ. of Anatomy, vol. v. 



