Order OALLIFORMES 
No. 8. 
Family MEGAPODIIDM. 
ALECTURA LATHAMI LATHAMI. 
BRUSH TURKEY. 
(Plate 8.) 
Alectura LATHAMI Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 4 (1831), New South Wales. 
New Holland Vulture Latham, Gen. Hist. B., I., p. 32, PL VI. (1821) ; Swainson, Class B., 
I., p. 284, Fig. 92 (1836). 
Alectura Latham, Gen. Hist. B., X., p. 455 (1824). 
Alectura lathami Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 4 (1831) ; Jardine and Selby, 111. Orn., III., PI. 140 
(1835) ; Gould, Tasmanian Journal, I,, p. 21 (1841). 
Catheturus australis Swainson, Class B., II., p. 206 (1837). 
Meleagris lindesayii* Jameson, Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc., VII., p. 473 (1838). 
Talegalla lathami Gould, P.Z.S., p. Ill (1840) ; id., B. Austr., V., PL 77 (1848) ; Bartlett, 
P.Z.S., p. 426 (1860) ; Lumholtz, Among Cannibals, p. 326 (1889). 
Megapodius (Telegallus) lathami Thienemann, Fortpflanz. ges. Vogel, p. 12 ; pL XII., f . 1 
(1845). 
Talegallus lathami Gray, Gen. B., III., p. 489 (1849) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., 
p. 150 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 184 (1876) ; id., P.Z.S. , p. 116 (1876) ; 
id.. Tab. List. Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 279 (1889). 
“Catheturus novce-hollandice (Latham) ” Bonaparte, f Compt. Rend., XLII., p. 876 (1856). 
Catheturus lathami Reichenhach, Tauben, p. 10, PL 277 (1862) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. 
Brit. Mus., XXII., p. 468 (1893) ; Le Souef, Ibis, p. 14 (1899) ; Robinson and Lave- 
rock, Ibis, p. 648 (1900) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 708 (1901) ; Oates, 
Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 10 (1901) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 74 (1906) ; 
Le Souef, Wild Life in Austr., p. 306 (1907) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 6 
(1908). 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Queensland. 
Adult male. Sides of neck, upper back, wings above and below and tail black ; middle 
of back covered with down-hke feathers which are sooty-grey at base and blackish 
at the tips ; under-surface blackish, the feathers of the upper breast narrowly, and 
those of the lower breast and abdomen broadly edged with white as also the thighs ; 
under tail-coverts composed of black down-like feathers. Skin on head and upper 
part of neck red, remainder of neck yellow ; “ Bill black ; iris brownish white ; feet 
yellow” (E. Olive). Total length, 586 mm. ; culmen, from hinder point of nostril, 
29 ; wing, 296 ; tail, 200 ; tarsus, 93. 
* Type in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, examined, 
f Latham never gave this bird a specific name. 
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