No.5, Megapodius tumulus,. 
mound, not all round.like the smaller mounds. Most of the 
big mounds have numbers of trees, shrubs, and vines etowtns 
in them from base to top, in some’ instances the trees were 
up to ten inches in diameter; trees of bigger diameter were 
often noted, but the mounds appeared to have been gradually 
built up around them, } 
February 27th, 1912, When examining a mound of C.purpurei- 
collis which contained eggs, I unearthed a fresh egg of M, 
tumulus. Later, on questioning an intelligent Native re, 
this occurrence, he told me that he had often found an oda 
egg of this species in a Turkeys mound; and that he had 
occasionally found an egg lightly buried in the soil near 
a favourite feeding ground in the scrub. 
Solitary young, from newly hatched to half-grown birds are 
frequently Seen during the breeding season; on being dis- 
turbed they fly up into a nearby tree, 
