Order 0ALLIF0RME8 
No. 6. 
FawAly MEGAPODIIDM. 
MEGAPODIUS DUPEKREYI TUMULUS. 
SCRUB FOWL. 
(Plate 6.) 
Megapodius tumulus Gould, P.Z.S., p. 20 (1842), Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory. 
Megapodius tumulus Gould, P.Z.S., p. 20 (1842) ; Thienemann, Fortpflanz. ges. Vogel, 
pp. 10, 51 (1846) ; Gould, B. Austr,, V., PL 79 (1848) ; Macgillivray, Narr. Voy. 
Rattlesnake, I., p. 62 (1862) ; Gray, P.Z.S., p. 290, PL XXXIV. (1861) ; Gould, 
Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 167 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 184 (1876) ; 
id., P.Z.S., p. 118 (1876) ; Biggies, Handb. B. Austr., II., PL 94 (1877) ; Forbes, 
P.Z.S., p. 126 (1878) ; Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; Lumholtz, 
Among Cannibals, p. 149 (1889) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 282 1889) ; 
Mathews, Handl. B. Austral, p. 6 (1908). 
Megapodius macgilivrayi (not Gray) Finch, New Guinea, p. 180 (1865). 
Megapodius assimilis Masters, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 59 (1875) ; Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. 
B., p. 18 (1888). 
Megapodius duperreyi (Part.) Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXII., p. 454 (1893). 
Megapodius duperreyi (not Lesson and Garnot) Le Souef, Ibis, p. 16 (1899) ; Robinson 
and Laverock, Ibis, p. 649 (1900) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 715 
(1901) ; id., Emu, VI., p. 15 (1906) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 74 (1906) ; Le Souef, 
Wild Life in Austr., p. 353 (1907). 
Megapodius duperreyi tumulus Hartert, Nov. ZooL, XII., p. 195 (1905). 
Distribution. Northern Territory : Queensland. 
Adult male (from the Northern Territory). General colour above, including the wings and 
tail, dark chestnut-brown, becoming darker on the lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts 
and tail ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, paler on the outer webs ; head crested, 
darker than the back, the feathers being lanceolate in form imparts a more or less 
streaked appearance ; hind-neck and upper mantle dark lead-grey like the entire under- 
surface, except the under tail-coverts, which are dark chestnut like the flanks ; under 
wing-coverts dark lead-grey ; forehead, space round the eyes and sides of face very 
sparsely feathered with dark hair-like plumes ; chin and upper throat with very 
short blackish feathers ; “ Bill reddish brown with yellow edges ; iris dark brown ; tarsi 
and feet bright orange, the scales on the front of the tarsi from the fourth downwards 
and the scales on the toes dark reddish brown ” (J. Gould) ; “ iris brown ; feet red ” 
(J. T. Tunney). Total length, 460 mm. ; culmen, from hinder point of nostril, 21 ; 
wing, 275 ; tail, 105 ; tarsus, 65. 
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