h. 2 imm. Port Molle, May 1881. Legs aud feet greenish grey.
c. 2 juv. Port Molle, May 1881. Legs and feet red; bill black.
d. Pull. Thursday Island, July 1881. Bill, legs, and feet h laok;
iris brown.
e. d juv. Prince of AVales Island, Aug. 1881. Iris reddish orange;
bill greenish black ; legs and feet olive-brown.
/ . d ad. Booby Island, Aug. 1881. Soft parts as in preceding.
9- d juv. Booby Island, Aug. 1881. Legs and feet greenish grey.
The very interesting series collected by Dr. Coppinger ranges from
the tiny nestling to the fully adult bird. The age of a specimen is
easily determined by its under tail-coverts, which are yellow in the
immature birds and deepen into rich orange in the adult ones. I t
will be noticed th at young birds were found, both in May and
August, ju st beginning to put on the bright plumage of the b r e a s t;
those killed in August are getting the rose-coloured crown. This
either shows th at the breeding-times are not identical in Torres
Straits and at Port Molle, or th at more than one brood is reared in
the year.
60. Megapodius duperreyi, Less.
Oustalet, Bibl. Ilautes Etudes, xxii. p. 17 (1881).
Megapodius assimilis, Masters; Ramsay, t. c. p. 196.
a. 2 - Prince of Wales Island, Torres Straits, Aug. 1881. Bill
reddish brown, with yellow edges; legs bright orange; iris
light reddish brown ; scales of toes dark reddish brown.
h. d . Booby Island, Aug. 1881. Iris dark brown.
M. Oustalet, who has recently written a monograph of the Mega-
podes, unites M. tumulus of Australia and Al. assimilis of Masters
with the well-known M. duperreyi ■, and on looking over the series
in the British Museum, I confess that his opinion seems to be well
founded.
61. RaUus philippensis, L.
Hypotaenidia philippensis, Ramsay, t. c. p. 199.
«. d • Channel Rock, June 1881. Iris red.
62. Porphyrio melanonotus, Temm,
Ramsay, t. c. p. 199.
«. 2 • Booby Island, Aug. 1881. Iris bright orange-red.
63. .ffisacus magnirostris {Oeoffr.).
Ramsay, t. c. p. 196.
a. 2 • Port Molle, Queesland.
64. Haematopus longirostris, V.
Ramsay, t. c. p. 197.
a. 2 • Wednesday Island, July 1881. Iris deep orange ; eyelid
red.
65. .ffigialitis mougolicus (Pall.).
Ramsay, t. c. p. 197.
a ,h . 2 • Channel Rock, June 1881.
c. 2- Port Molle, May 1881.
66. Charadrius Mvus (Om.).
Charadrius longipes, Ramsay, t. c. p. 197.
a. 2 • Suva, Fiji, Oct. 12, 1880.
h. Tongatabu, Nov. 1880.
67. Totauus iucauus, Gm.
Totanus brevipes, Ramsay, (. c. p. 197.
a. 2 • West Island, Torres Straits, Sept. 1881.
68. Larus novse.hollandise, Steph.
Ramsay, t. c. p. 201.
a. 2 ad. Thursday Island, July 1881. Iris white ; eyelid red.
b. 2 ad. Thursday Island, Aug. 1881. Iris light grey ; eyelid
orange ; bill blood-red, with dark tips ; legs and feet orange-
red.
c. (7 juv. Thursday Island. Iris d a rk ; bill dark horn-colour;
legs and feet grey, with black claws,
cf. Pull. Channel Rock, June 1881. Iris brown ; hill horn-colour ;
legs and feet light brown.
69. Auous stolidus (L.).
Sharpe, Rep. Trans. Venus, Birds, p. 9 ; Saunders, P .Z .S . 1876,
p. 669 ; Ramsay, t. c. p. 202,
a. d . Torres Straits, Oct. 4, 1881.
70. Sterna hergii, Licht.
Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 657 ; Ramsay, t. a. p. 201.
а. 2 . Tongatabu, Nov. 1880.
б. 2 . Suva, Fiji, Oct. 12, 1880.
c. 2 • Port Molle, Queensland, May 1881.
d, e. d juv. Port Denison, Queensland, April 1881.