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Show ^00 MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE MOMOTIDAE. [Jan. 15, 38. MEGAPODIUS DUPERREYI, Less. & Garn. Megapodius duperreyi, Less. & Garn. Bull. Sc. Nat. viii. p. 113 ( 1826), Dorey (type examined); Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. i. pt. 2, p. 700, 703, pl. 36 (1826-1828). Megapode reinwardt, Temm. PL Col. livr. 37, genre Megapode (1823). Megapodius rubripes, Temm. Pl. Col. 411 (25th October 1826'), Celebes! Amboyna! Megapodius reinwardtii (sic), Temm. apud Wagl. Syst. Av. Gen. Megapodius, note (1827), descr. nulla. Megapodius reinwardtii, Wagl. Syst. Av. Gen. Megapodius, Ad-ditamenta, sp. 4 (1827). Megapodius rufipes, S. Miill., Verh. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 23, 109 (1839-1844), Utanata. Megapodius, sp., Wall. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xx. pp. 473, 477(1857), Ke, Aru. [No. 230. Female : eyes dull red ; legs orange ; bill horn-colour. -/. Mi] A female (No. 230) from Wokan. 39. NUMENIUS UROPYGIALIS, Gould. [No. 258. Wanumbai, male.-J. Mi] 40. TRINGOIDES HYPOLEUCUS (Linn.). [No. 227. Dobbo, female : legs light green ; bill dark green; eyes hazel; stomach contained insects.-J. Mi] 7. On the Systematic Position of the Momotidae. By A. H. G A R R O D , M.A., F.R.S., Prosector to the Society. [Received December 3, 1877.] In my paper on certain muscles of birds and their value in 2, I have made an error, which I desire to correct, with reference to the systematic position of the Momotidae. I there included them with the CoraciidaB as part of a single family, characterized among the Anomalogonatse by the possession of a nude oil-gland, together with colic caeca. Since the time my paper appeared, I have had the opportunity of dissecting several species of Momotidae, thanks to the kindness of Mr. O. Salvin, including Momotus lessoni, M. cequatorialis, M. brasiliensis (a specimen which had lived in Society's Gardens), Hylomanes gularis, and Eumomota superciliaris; and I find that in none of these are colic caeca present. Further, in Hylomanes gularis and Eumomota superciliaris I 1 I doubt whether this date, given by Crotch (Ibis, 1868, p. 500), for the publication of tbe 69th livraison of Temminck's ' Planches Coloriees,' is exact; my doubts rise from the fact that M. rubripes is not mentioned by Wagler in his ' Systema Avium,' published in 1827. » P. Z. S. 1874, p. 123. |
