88 VISCOUNT "WALDEN ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. 



Megacephalon maleo, Temm., Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 876 (1856). 



rubripes, G. B. Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 288; op. cit. 1864, p. 42, nee Temm. 



Hab. North-east Celebes {Wallace). 



Although we owe to Messrs. Gray and Mitchell (I. c.) an excellent figure, and to 

 Mr. Wallace (I. c.) a most interesting account of this species, no description, with a 

 distinctive title, appears ever to have been published of the adult bird. The specific 

 title adopted above is the name by which this Megapode is known to the natives of 

 North Celebes. Temminck's only published notice of the species is in these words : — 

 "Le grand Megapode, connu aux Celebes sous le nom de Maleo ne nous est point 

 encore parvenu " (PI. Col. 411); and he then states that it must not be confounded with 

 the other Celebean Megapode, M. rubripes, Temm. It was, however, so confounded for 

 many years after, until Prince Bonaparte (I. c.) enumerated it as a distinct species in 

 his ' Tableaux Paralleliques.' Temminck does not appear either to have published the 

 characters of his genus Megacephalon. 



A fine male from North-east Celebes (mus. nostr.) has the head, chin, throat, and 

 entire upper half of the neck naked, with a few straggling, short, brown feathers 

 interspersed. The quills, rectrices, upper and under tail-coverts are deep brown, nearly 

 black, with a dark green gloss. Upper breast and entire upper surface dark brown. 

 Under surface and flanks salmon-colour. Fifth and sixth quills equal, and longest; 

 fourth and seventh a trifle shorter, and equal ; third somewhat shorter than fourth ; the 

 second an inch shorter than the third, and the first an inch shorter than the second. 



GRALL.E. 

 CHAEADRIIDtE. 



Chaeadeius, Linnaeus. 



139. Chaeadeius fulvus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. ed. 13, i. p. 687, ex Lath. Syn. iii. p. 211, 



"Otaheite;" Schelgel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 30. 



Hab. Gorontalo, April, males passing into perfect plumage, female passing into 

 perfect plumage, April 20 (Rosenberg); Gorontalo, passing out of perfect plumage, 

 September 24 (Forsten). 



The complete range of this species cannot be given until we have agreed upon the 

 races which ought to be included under the above title. For an exhaustive essay on 

 the subject, conf. Finsch & Hartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. p. 188. 



Eudeomias, Boie. 



140. Eudeomias veeedus (Gould), P. Z. S. 1848, p. 38, " Northern Australia;" Harting, 



Ibis, 1870, p. 209. 



Hab. Macassar (Wallace); Northern and Eastern Asia, Malay archipelago, New 

 Guinea, Australia. 



