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678 Birds of Celebes: Megapodidae. 



has become peculiarly tame. The Sarasins procured two eggs in the market 

 at Bonerate. 



We follow Dr. Oustalet and Mr. Ogilvie-Grant in uniting the Lesser 

 Sundan and the Australian forms with that of Papuasia, though it should be 

 pointed out that Count Salvadori holds (or held) the last for a species by 

 itself. After investigating the materials in the British, Leyden and Paris Museums, 

 Dr. Oustalet came to the conclusion that there are no constant relations between 

 the place of origin of these birds and their size and shades of colour. Local 

 extremes of variation appear, however, to occvir in the Lesser Sunda Islands 

 and in Australia, the former being on an average smaller and, according to 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, more lightly coloured. It is to these that the name 

 rubripes belongs, the type of Temminck's species having been obtained, as 

 Schlegel (3) makes evident, by Reinwardt in Lombok. 



The habits of this species in Australia and the islands off Cape York are 

 well described by Gilbert and Macgillivray in Gould's "Birds of Australia"; 

 Dr. Vorderman also records some notes on its habits in the Kangean Islands, 

 which may be referred to (N. T. Ned. Ind. XLIX 1889, 71). 



GENUS MEGACEPHALON Temm. 



The Moleo, the only member of this genus, is of the size of a large Fowl. 

 Head bare, neck almost bare; the head furnished with a large black occipital 

 casque or knob; a small knob behind each nostril, which is large and nearly round; 

 tarsus rather long, naked, reticulated in front and behind with small hexagonal 

 scales; toes webbed at the base to about the first joint of the lateral ones; tail 

 about twice as long as the tarsus, of 18 rectrices, bilaterally pressed together 

 somewhat, or "gabled"; wing very blunt, the secondaries a little shorter than 

 the longer primaries. 



-} * 291. MEGACEPHALON MALEO (Haiti.). 



Moleo. 



a. Maleo (1) Temm. in text to PI. Col., Megapodius, 1826; (2) Reinw., Reis. Ind. Archip. 



in 1821, 591 (1858). 



b. Megapodius rubripes (I) Quoy & Gaim. (nee Temm.), Voy. Astrol. Zool. 1830, I, 239, 



pi. 25 (= juv.). 



Megacephalon maleo "Temm." (1) Hartl, Verzeichniss 1844, 101; (2) Temm., Coup d'Oeil 

 gener. Possess. Neerl. 1849, III, 116; (3) Gray, List Gen. & Subgen. B. 1855, 103; 

 (4) Bp., Compt. Rend. 1856, XLII, 876; (5) Schl., Handl. Dierk. 1857, 389; 

 (6) Wall, Ibis 1860, 142; (7) id., P. Z. S. 1863, 34; (VIII) Schl., Dierent. 1864, 

 114, fig. 215; (9J Finsch, Neu Guinea 1865, 180; (10) Gray, List Gall. Br. Mus. 

 1867, IS; (11) id., HL. n, 1870, 254, Nr. 9538; (12) Sclat, P. Z. S. 1871, 700; 

 (13) Sundev., Tentamen 1872, 118; (14) Walden, Tr. Z. S. 1872, VXH, 87; 

 (15) Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, 469, 640; (16) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, 



