collected in Dutch New Guinea. 323 



K. S. Meek procured an adult and young male on the 

 foot-hills above the Utakwa River. The locality has been 

 wrongly recorded as Snow Mountains. 



"This Brush-Turkey was only heard in the mountains 

 around my highest camp on the Iwaka River. It is a very 

 wary bird and extremely difficult to obtain. The call, which 

 is usually heard in the very early morning, seldom during the 

 rest o£ the day^ is a loud ' kok, kok,' and the alarm-note is 

 a grunt. The first time I heard the alarm-note I mistook it 

 for the grunt of a pig, and was very surprised after careful 

 stalking to find that the sound was made by a Brush-Turkey. 

 We did not come across any of its mounds in the moun- 

 tains."— C. //. B. G. 



Talegalliis fuscirostris. 



Talegallus fuscirostris Salvad. ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. xxii. 

 p. 466 (1893) ; id. P. & P. p. 297 (1912) ; id. Ibis, 1913, 

 p. 107 ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. -176 (1913). 



Talegallus cuvieri fuscirostris Yan Oort, p. 57 (1909). 



a. S imm. Wakatimi, Mimika River, 29th March, 1911. 

 [No. 1287, C. II. B. G.] 



&, c. S et imm. Mimika River, 30 miles from the mouth, 

 25th Jan., & 22nd March, 1910. [Nos. 1010, 1124, G. C. S.'\ 



cl-h. c? ? et (^ imm. Parimau, Mimika River, 4th Sept.- 

 21st Dec. 1910. [Nos. 128, 299, 736, 991, C.H.B. G., & 

 1508, G. C. S.] 



i. Pull. Tuaba River, 21st May, 1910. [No. 1162, 

 G. C. S.-] 



k—m. (^ ? ad. et imm. Wataikwa River, 22nd Sept., 14th 

 & ]6th Oct. 1910. [Nos. 1229, ]374, 1384, G. C. S.] 



n-g- (S ? • Canoe Camp, Setakwa River, 24th Oct.-13th 

 Nov. 1912. 



r—w. (^ ? et (^ pull. Launch Camp, Setakwa River, 

 6th Oct.-7thNov. 1912, & 21st March, 1913. 



(^ ? . Iris brown ;. bare skin on the sides of the head dark 

 slate-colour ; bill brownish-black or dark bi-own tinged with 

 buff on the lower mandible ; legs pale yellow or bright 

 orange-yellow. 



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