T H E PLATE is fairly good, but the legs and feet are, as usual,
quite wrongly coloured, though Captain Marshall took home
with him, for the artists in this and other cases, full and exact
descriptions. The shade of the plumage varies much in different
specimens; in some birds, as in the figure in the back
ground, the lower surface is much greyer, and the upper surface
paler and yellower than in others. In some, again, the tints are
even darker than in the bird depicted in the foreground. The
plate is wrongly lettered.
T H E MEGAPODES, of which between twenty and thirty other
species have been described, belong to the Islands of the
Archipelago and of the Pacific, New Guinea, and Australia.
