CKACID^. 19 



2. Cape York, 31st Nov. (Capt. Voy. H.M.S. ' Rattlesnake.' 



Stanley). 

 1. Queensland. Donald Mackintosh, Esa. fP.]. 



1. Laid in confinement (Lilford Lord Lilford [P.]. 



Aviaries). 

 1. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gar- Salvin-Qodman OoU. 



dens, London) . 



Gtenus MEGALOCEPHALUM, Temm. 



Megalocephalum maleo, Hartl. 



Megapodius (Meffacephaloma) maleo, Thien. Fortpfianz. ges. Viiu. p. 11 

 tab. iv. fig. 1(1845-64). ■' i- » 



Megacephalon maleo, Wallace, Ibis, 1860, p. 142 ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 139 ; Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 472 (1893) : Mexier & 

 Wiglesw. B. Celebes, ii. p. 678 (1898). 



Megacephalum maleo, Sharpe, Kand-l. i. p. 14 (1899). 



The three eggs of the Maleo in the Collection are reddish baif, 

 and measure respectively : 4-3 by 2-3; 4'05 by 2-4 ; 4-15 by 2'45. 



1. Menado, Celebes {A. R. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Wallace). 



1. Celebes. Gould Coll. 



1. Purchased at Malacca. H. Cuming, Esq. [P.]. 



Sub-Order GRACES. 

 Family CEACIDvE. 



The eggs of the Curassows are, as a rule, pointed at both ends or 

 biconical. Some, however, are leiigthened ellipses and others are 

 spheroidal in shape. 



The shell is very coarse and granulated. The eggs of a few 

 species have a slight gloss ; those of the majority are glossless. 



The colour is dull white, turning to parchtnent-white or yellowish 

 white with incubation. When the series is fairly extensive, speci- 

 mens exhibiting all these variations of colour are represented, and 

 therefore it has not been thought necessary to describe the eggs of 

 each species in the Collection in detail. 



Little is known or recorded about the eggs of these birds. It 

 will be seen that very many of the specimens in the Museum have 

 been laid in confinement. 



Genus CBAX, Linn. 

 Crax alector, Linn. 



Orax alector, Ch-ant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii, p. 475 (1893) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. i. p. 14 (1899). 



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