124 THE NICOBAR MEGAPODE. 



The PLATE is fairly good, but the legs and feet are, as usual, 

 quite wrongly coloured, though Captain Marshall took home 

 with him, for the artists in this and other cases, full and exact 

 descriptions. The shade of the plumage varies much in differ- 

 ent specimens ; in some birds, as in the figure in the back 

 ground, the lower surface is much greyer, and the upper surface 

 paler and yellower than in others. In some, again, the tints are 

 even darker than in the bird depicted in the foreground. The 

 plate is wrongly lettered. 



The Megapodes, of which between twenty and thirty other 

 species have been described, belong to the Islands of the 

 Archipelago and of the Pacific, New Guinea, and Australia. 



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