400 CLASS AVES. 



spur of the Kamichis. The palmation is very short 



between the external toes, and a little larger between 



the internal. These birds lay eggs of a bulk dispro- 



portioned to the size of their bodies. 



There is one species tufted almost like the Cha- 



varia. 



Megap. Duperrey. Less, and Gar. 

 Voy. de Duperrey. Zool. pi. 37. 



Head, crested ; neck, chest, and belly, grey, or slate- 

 colour ; . rump, reddish-black ; crest, wings, and back, 

 rufous ; bill and feet, whitish. In New Guinea, called 

 Mangoipe. This species is called Tavon at Manilla ; 

 it is the size of a partridge, but it lays eggs as 

 big as a goose. This observation is due to M. 

 Dussumier. 



These birds have been only very lately brought 

 to Europe, but they have heesi known, for more 

 than a century, by the notice of Pigafetta, and of 

 Gemelli Carreri, in 1719. See Lesson, Manuel, 220. 



Two others have no tuft. 



Megapodius Freycinet. Quoy. 

 and Gaim. 28, and Col. 220. 



Skin of the neck, brownish, and covered here and there 

 with some small bunches of short feathers; upper 

 parts, black-brown ; lighter on the belly and under the 

 wings. Island of Guebe, and Banda ; called Blevine 

 Mankero, and Manloague. 



Megapodius La Perouse. Quoy 

 and Gaim. 27- Atlas Zool. du Voy. 



Feathers of hind-head, clear brown ; those of back 

 and wings, brown, mixed with red towards the point ; 



