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Birds of Celebes: Megapodidae. 
has become peculiarly tame. The Sarasins procured two eggs in the market 
at Bonerate. 
We follow Dr. Oustalet and Mr. Ogilvie-Grant in uniting the Lesser 
Sundan and the Australian forms with that of Papuasia, though it should he 
j)ointed out that Count Salvador! holds (or held) the last for a species hy 
itself. After investigating the materials in the British, Leyden and Paris Museums, 
Dr. Oustalet came to the conclusion that there are no constant relations between 
the place of origin of these birds and their size and shades of colour. Local 
extremes of variation appear, however, to occur in the Lesser Sunda Islands 
and in Australia, the former being on an average smaller and, according to 
Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, more lightly coloured. It is to these that the name 
rubripes belongs, the type of Temminck’s species having been obtained, as 
Schlegel ( 3 ) makes evident, by Beinwardt in Lombok. 
The habits of this species in Australia and the islands otf Cape York are 
well described by Gilbert and Macgillivray in Gould’s “Birds of Australia”; 
Dr. Vorderman also records some notes on its habits in the Kangean Islands, 
which may be referred to (N. T. Ned. Ind. XLIX 1889, 71). 
GENUS MEGACEPHALON Temm. 
The Moleo, the only member of this genus, is of the size of a large Fowl. 
Head bare, neck almost bare; the head furnished with a large black occipital 
casque or knob; a small knob behind each nostril, which is large and nearly round; 
tarsus rather long, naked, reticulated in front and behind wth small hexagonal 
scales; toes webbed at the base to about the first joint of the lateral ones; tail 
about twice as long as the tarsus, of 18 rectrices, bilaterally pressed together 
somewhat, or “gabled”; wing very blunt, the secondaries a little shorter than 
the longer primaries. 
* 291. MEGACEPHALON MALEO (Hartl.). 
Moleo. 
a. Maleo (1) Temm. in text to PI. Col., Megapodius, 1826; (2J Beinw., Reis. Ind. Archip. 
in 1821, 591 (1858). 
b. Megapodius rubripes (I) Quoy & G-aim. (nec Temm.), Voy. Astrol. Zool. 1830, I, 239, 
pi. 25 {= juv.). 
Megacephalon maleo “Temm.” (1) Hartl., Verzeichniss 1844, 101; (2) Temm., Coup d’Oeil 
gener. Possess. Neerl. 1849, HI, 116; (3) Gray, List Gen. & Subgen. B. 1855, 103; 
(4) Bp., Oompt. Rend. 1856, XLII, 876; (5) SchL, Handl. Dierk. 1857, 389; 
(6) Wall., Ibis 1860, 142; (7) id., P. Z. 8.’ 1863, 34; (VIII) SchL, Dierent. 1864, 
114, fig. 215; (9) Finsch, Neu Guinea 1865, 180; (10) Gray, List Gall. Br. Mus. 
1867, IS; (11) id., HL. H, 1870, 254, Nr. 9538; (12) Sclat., P. Z. S. 1871, 700; 
(13) Sundev., Tentamen 1872, 118; (14) Walden, Tr. Z. S. 1872, VTH, 87; 
(13) Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, 469, 640; (16) Salvad. , Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, 
