Birds of Celebes: Megapodidae. g77 



:^290. MEGAPODIUS DUPERREYI Less. Gain. 

 Orange-legged Megapode. 



Megapodius duperreyi (or duperreyii, or duperrei) (1) Less. & Garn., Bull. Sc. Nat. 1826, 

 Vin, 113; (II) Less., Voy. Coqu. Zool. 1828, I, pt. H, 700, pi. 36; (3) Schl., Mus. 

 P.-B., Megapod., 1880, 57; (4) Oustal., Ann. Sc. Nat. 1881, XI, 77-95; (5) 

 Salvad., Orn. Pap. m, 1882, 219; Agg. 1891, 194; (6) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. 

 Ind. 1890, L, 520; (7) Grant, Cat. B. 1893, XXH, 454; (^SJ M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. 

 Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 16; (9) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 181, 574, 598. 



a. Megapodius rubripes (I) Temm., PI. Col. Ill (1826); (2) H. E. D. Engelhard, Bijdr. 



Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde Ned. Ind. 4 ser. "VTH, 1884, 280. 



b. Megapodius tumulus Gld.; (I) id., B. Austr. V, pi. 79 (1842); (II) Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, 



290, pi. XXXIV (juv.); (3) Gld., HB. B. Austr. 1865, H, 167; (IV) Diggl., B. 

 Austr. n, pi. 94 (1877). 



c. Megapodius gouldii (1) Gray, P. Z. S. 18G1, 290. 

 '•Bumbungang", Saleyer Islands, Engelhard a 2. 



For further synonymy cf. Oustalet 4\ Salvadori 5; Grant 7. 



Figures and descriptions. Gould h I (Austr.); Gray b II (Austr.); Diggles b IV (Austr.); 



Lesson // (New Guinea); Temminck a I (Lombok — fide Schl.); Oustalet 4; 



Salvad. 5; Grant 7. 

 Adult. Like M. cmningi of Celebes, but the feathers of the head lengthened on the occiput 



so as to form a tuft; mantle and neck brownish slate-grey, like the under surface; 



legs and feet orange, not blackish; tail longer (Sumba: Riedel — Nr. 12917). 

 Measurements. Wing from 215 mm (Lombok) to 282 (Queensland); tail 80 — 135; bill 17 — 



19; tarsus 48—66; middle toe 30—43 (Oustalet 4). 

 Immature birds. "Are easily recognised by their sharp-pointed outer primaries" (Grant 7). 

 Young. "In quite young specimens the chin and tliroat are buff, shading into grey on the 



neck, and into pale rufous-brown on the rest of the under-parts" (Grant 7). 

 Eggs. Long ovals, cream-buff to clay-buff: 85 X 52 mm and 83 X 50 mm (Bonerate: 



P. & F. Sarasin). Elongated ovals, pale coffee-brown: size c. 90 X 52 mm (Austraha: 



North, Nests & Eggs 1889, 282). Tint often as in Cocliin China fowl: 88 X 52 mm 



(Kangeau Is. near Java: Vorderman 6). 

 Nest. A Megapode-mound (see M. cumingi). 

 Distribution. Celebes subregion: — Saleyer Island (Teijsmaun 5), Kalao and neighbouring 



islets (Engelhard a 2), Bonerate (P. &F. Sarasin S), Djampea and Kalao (Everett 5); 



Kangean and Lombok, Sumba, Flores, to Banda, the "Western Papuasian Islands, 



New Guinea, North Australia and North Queensland (Salvadori .5, Grant 7, etc.). 



This species is included in the avifauna of the Celebesian area in virtue 

 of four specimens obtained in the Island of Saleyer by Teijsmann in 1877, 

 and others obtained by Mr. Everett in Kalao and Djampea. Teijsmann's 

 examples are stated by Schlegel to be absolutely similar to individuals from 

 Lombok, Wetter, Banda etc., but the feathers of the mantle, as well as the 

 greater wing-coverts are partly tinted with straw-yellow towards their tips. 

 Mr. Hartert points out no definite differences. Mr. Engelhard (a 2) says that 

 it lives in the islands of the Bonerate subdistrict (south of Saleyer) in great 

 numbers, especially in Kalao, or Lambego, where it is held in honour and 



