GAME-BIRDS. 
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deposited in a circle at the distance of 9 or 12 inches from each other, and buried 
more than an arm’s-deptli with the large end upwards. 
Another genus ( sEpypodius) from New Guinea and Waigiou, is characterised 
by a fleshy crest running from the base of the bill to the crown, a pendulous wattle 
at the base of the fore-neck, and the chestnut upper tail-coverts. 
The last genus of the family contains only the maleo ( Mega - 
Male °' cephalum maleo), of North Celebes and the Sanghir Islands, which is 
the most remarkable of the group, both in its structure and habits. In both sexes 
CELEBEAN MALEO (£ nat. size). 
the head is naked, the crown being covered with a large black casque; while the 
plumage of the upper-parts, chest, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts is dark 
brown, and that of the breast and belly beautiful salmon-pink. These birds do 
not raise mounds in which to lay their eggs, but deposit the latter in holes dug in 
the sand. Mr. Wallace describes one of their laying-grounds as follows:—“ The 
place is situated in the large bay between the islands of Limbe and Banca, and 
consists of a steep beach more than a mile in length of deep, loose, and coarse black 
volcanic sand, or rather gravel—very fatiguing to walk over ... It is in this 
loose, hot, black sand, that those singular birds the ‘ maleos,’ deposit their eggs. 
In the months of August and September when there is little or no rain, they come 
down in pairs from the interior to this, or to one or two other favourite spots, and 
