750 



MR. J. J. LISTER ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE 



monogTaph on the Family*, is that all these localities have been 

 at one time connected by land, which has since been to a large 

 extent submerged. 



Wallace had, in 1876 t, expressed the opinion that the Megapode 



* " Monographic des Oiseaux de la famille des Megapodiid^s." Ann. d. Sciences 

 naturelles, 6 ser. t. 10 & 11, 1880-81. 



f Geographical Distribution of Animals. London, vol. ii. p. 342. 



