Birds of Celebes: Megapodidae. 
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290. MEGAPODIUS DUPERREYI Less. Gam. 
Orange-legged Megapode. 
Megapodius duperreyi (or duperreyii, or duperrei) (1) Less. & Garn., Bull. Sc. Nat. 1826, 
Vin, 113; (11) Less., Voy. Coqu. Zool. 1828, I, pt. n, 700, pi. 36; (3) Schl., Mus. 
P.-B., Megapod., 1880, 57; (4) Oustal., Ann. Sc. Nat. 1881, XI, 77-95; (3) 
Salvad., Om. Pap. IH, 1882, 219; Agg. 1891, 194; (G) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. 
Ind. 1890, L, 520; (7) Grant, Oat. B. 1893, XXH, 454; (8)M.&Wg., Abli. Mus. 
Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 16; (9) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 181, 574, 598. 
a. Megapodius rubripes (I) Temm., PI. Col. 411 (1826); (2) H. E. D. Engelhard, Bijdr. 
Taal-, Land- en VoUcenkunde Ned. Lid. 4 ser. VIH, 1884, 280. 
b. Megapodius tumulus Gld.; (I) id., B. Austr. Y, pi. 79 (1842); (II) Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, 
290, pi. XXXIV (juv.); (3) Gld., HB. B. Austr. 1865, H, 167; (IV) Diggl., B. 
Austr. n, pi. 94 (1877). 
c. Megapodius gouldii (1) Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, 290. 
“Bumbungang”, Saleyer Islands, Engelhard a 2. 
For further synonymy cf. Oustalet 4; Salvadori 5; Grant 7. 
Figures and descriptions. Gould h I (Austr.); Gray b //'(Austr.); Biggies b IV (Austr.); 
Lesson II (New Guinea); Temminck a I (Lomhok — fide Schl.); Oustalet /; 
Salvad. 5; Glrant 7. 
Adult. Like M. of Celehes, hut the feathers of the head lengthened on the occiput 
so as to form a tuft ; mantle and neck hrovuiish slate-grey, like the under surface ; 
legs and feet orange, not hlackish; tail longer (Sumha: Riedel — Nr. 12917). 
Measurements. Wing from 215 mm (Lomhok) to 282 (Queensland); tail 80 — 135; hill 17 — 
19; tarsus 48 — 66; middle toe 30 — 43 (Oustalet 4). 
Immature birds. “Are easily recognised hy then- sharp-pointed outer primaries” (Grant 7). 
Young. “In quite young specimens the dun and throat are huff, shadmg into grey on the 
neck, and into pale rufous-hrown on the rest of the under-parts” (Grant 7). 
Eggs. Long ovals, cream-huff to clay-huff: 85 X 52 mm and 83 X 50 mm (Bonerate: 
P. & P. Sarasin). Elongated ovals, pale coffee-hrown: size c. 90 X 52 mm (Australia: 
North, Nests & Eggs 1889, 282). Tint often as in Cochin China fowl: 88 X 52 mm 
(Kangean Is. near Java: Vorderman 6). 
Nest. A Megapode-mound (see M. cumhigi). 
Distribution. Celehes suhregion: — Saleyer Island (Teijsmann 3), Kalao and neighhouring 
islets (Engelhard a 2], Bonerate (P.&F. Sarasin 8), Djampea and Kalao (Everetts); 
Kangean and Lomhok, Sumha, Flores, to Banda, the Western Papuasian Islands, 
New Guinea, North Australia and North Qiieensland (Salvadori 5, Grant 7, etc.). 
This species is included in the avifauna of the Celebesian area in virtue 
of four specimens obtained in the Island of Saleyer by Teijsmann in 1877, 
.and others obtained by Air. Everett in Kalao and Djampea. Teijsmann’s 
examples are stated by Schlegel to be absolutely similar to individuals from 
Lombok, Wetter, Banda etc., but the feathers of the mantle, as well as the 
greater wing-coverts are partly tinted with straw-yellow towards their tips. 
Mr. Hartert points out no definite differences. Mr. Engelhard (a 2) says that 
it lives in the islands of the Bonerate subdistrict (south of Saleyer) in great 
numbers, especially in Kalao, or Lambego, where it is held in honour and 
