1898.] ON A SECOND COLLECTION OE BIRDS EROM TONGOA. 
Ptilopus greyi, G. R. Gray 1859. 
Ptilonopus greyii, G. It. Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus. Columbae p. 4 
(1856; descr. nulla); Cat. Birds Trop. Isl. Pacif. Oc. p. 38 (1859). 
Ptilopus greyi , Wiglesw., Av. Polyn. p. 51 (1891); Salvadori, Cat. B. 
Brit. Mus. Vol. XXI (Fam. Treronidae), p. 85 (1893). 
2 Specimens . 
A. Adult; length of Wing, 123 mm.; Tail, 60 mm. 
The yellowish band, bordering the rose top of the head is 
very feebly indicated (as in the specimens sent from the same 
locality in 1890). 
B. Young, (probably belonging to P. greyi). Green, with 
no rose spot on head. Upper parts with narrow, lower parts 
with broad yellow edgings. Wing coverts and secondaries also 
with yellow edgings which are broader on the tertials. Primaries 
narrowly edged with whitish yellow. Under tail coverts yellow. 
Native name: Suda (or Synda), or Bagi-ta-moru. In respect 
to the latter name it may be mentioned that Dagi (pronounced 
Ndangi) means to weep or mourn over the dead: mom means a 
hole. It has acquired the name because it, according to the 
account of the natives, „comes to the house of a sick person, 
and sings its dirge over the sick person’s hole or grave 
Megapodius layardi, Tristr. 1879. 
Megapodius layardi, Tristram, Ibis 1879, p. 194 (1879). 
Megapodius layardi , Wiglesw. Av. Polyn. p. 58 (1891); Ogilvie-Grant, 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Vol. XXII (Fam. Megapodiidae ), p. 459 (1893). 
1 Specimen , and 3 eggs. 
Adult; length of Wing, 245 mm.; Tail, 90 mm. 
The eggs are of the following measurements: 
a. Length, 86 mm. Breadth, 47 mm. 
b. - 81 „ 
b. 
77 
c. 
The last egg seems to belong to another set (or hen). It is 
shorter, and the colour is a paler green than in the others. 
