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APPENDIX 1 Basic Data on Egg Number S DEINSEA 3, 1997 APPENDIX 1 Basic data on egg number s harvest year 1987/1988 (total egg-ha rvest 18260) A M J J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 harvest year 1988/1989 (total egg-ha rvest 27978) A M J J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 108 HEIJ et al.: Biology of Eulipoa wallacei - part 2 APPENDIX 1 (continued) harvest year 1989/1990 (total egg-ha rvest 22934) A M J J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 harvest year 1991/1992 (total egg-ha rvest 27648) A M J J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 109 DEINSEA 3, 1997 APPENDIX 1 (continued) harvest year 1992/1993 (total egg-ha rvest 26886) A M J J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 harvest year 1993/1994 (total egg-ha rvest 32722) A M J J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 110 HEIJ et al.: Biology of Eulipoa wallacei - part 2 APPENDIX 1 (continued) harvest year 1994/1995 (total egg-ha rvest 36263) A M J J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 harvest year 1995/1996 (total egg-ha rvest 36618) A M J J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 111 DEINSEA 3, 1997 APPENDIX 1 (continued) harvest year 1996/1997 (total egg-ha rvest 37712) A M J J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 112 HEIJ et al.: Biology of Eulipoa wallacei - part 2 APPENDIX 2 Basic data on fledgling number s harvest year 1994/1995 (total number of fledged chicks 3143) A no data M no data J no data J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 harvest year 1995/1996 (total number of fledged chicks 2862) A M J J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 113 DEINSEA 3, 1997 APPENDIX 2 (continued) harvest year 1996/1997 (total number of fledged chicks 3099) A M J J A S O N D J F M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 114 HEIJ et al.: Biology of Eulipoa wallacei - part 2 APPENDIX 3 Biometr ical data Table 42 Measurements (in mm) tak en by C.F.E. Rompas of 10 living adult f emales of Eulipoa wallacei captured at Tanjung Maleo, Haruku Island, October - December 1994 (data from Rompas 1996). n mean s.d. range Bill from feathers 10 19.9 2.32 16.0 - 22.3 Bill from nostril 10 14.8 1.93 12.2 - 17.8 Bill from skull 10 26.3 2.80 21.5 - 31.0 Tarsus 10 58.5 2.74 55.0 - 64.0 Midtoe 10 35.6 2.74 31.5 - 41.8 Midtoe with claw 10 54.3 2.77 49.4 - 60.5 Wing 10 207.6 6.96 200.0 - 221.0 Tail 8 77.9 3.09 73.6 - 81.6 total weight in g 10 481 21.89 450 - 515 Table 43 Measurements (in mm) tak en by C.F.E. Rompas of six living newly fledged chicks of Eulipoa wallacei at the Tanjung Maleo nesting grounds, Haruku Island, October 1994-March 1995 (data from Rompas 1996). n mean s.d. range Bill from feathers 6 11.6 1.68 10.0 - 13.0 Bill from nostril 6 7.6 1.34 6.3 - 9.5 Bill from skull 4 15.2 1.18 13.5 - 16.4 Tarsus 6 28.2 8.25 23.0 - 32.4 Midtoe 4 19.2 3.50 16.4 - 21.5 Midtoe with claw 4 27.7 5.65 24.8 - 31.4 Wing 3 89.7 21.8 83.0 - 94.0 Tail 4 31.2 0.94 30.5 - 32.0 total weight in g 3 66.8 3.96 61.5 - 71 Table 44 Measurements (in mm) tak en by C.F.E. Rompas of six skins of f emale specimens of Eulipoa wallacei in the collection of Museum Zoologicum Bogor iense (MZB): five from Bur u, of which four collected by Toxopeus (22/23-XII-1921) and 1 b y Tarip (23-II-1922), and one from Halmaher a, collected by Vorderman (data from Rompas 1996). n mean s.d. range Bill from nostril 6 17.2 1.88 15.0 - 19.7 Bill from skull 6 30.4 2.11 27.5 - 34.0 Tarsus 5 52.8 4.91 47.0 - 58.3 Midtoe 6 38.1 1.54 36.3 - 40.8 Midtoe with claw 6 54.0 2.19 51.7 - 57.5 Wing 6 197.0 3.47 190.0 - 200.0 Tail 6 75.5 4.63 65.7 - 79.0 115 DEINSEA 3, 1997 Table 45 Measurements (in mm) tak en by C.F.E. Rompas of tw o male specimens of Eulipoa wallacei (one adult and one chick) in the collection of Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense (MZB) (data from Rompas 1996). adult male, skin male chick, skin de Haan, 24-X-1951 Toxopeus, 22-XII-1922 Teliwang, Halmahera Buru collection MZB collection MZB Bill from nostril 21.2 9.3 Bill from skull 31.3 17.3 Tarsus 56.5 28.3 Midtoe 41.6 19.3 Midtoe with claw 65.3 22.9 Wing 190.0 99.0 Tail 86.8 30.0 116 HEIJ et al.: Biology of Eulipoa wallacei - part 2 APPENDIX 4 The chromosome number of Eulipoa wallacei Based on embryonic cells taken from hard-set Table 46 Chromosome counts based on 8 meta- eggs that originated from Tanjung Maleo (and phases. Most frequent diploid n umbers are giv en, transported to the Bogor Laboratory) Rompas range between brackets (data from Rompas 1996). (1996) established the chromosome number of Eulipoa wallacei at 2n = 56 (12 macrochromo - macrochromosomes microchromosomes total somes and 44 microchromosomes). This is the result of the analysis (counts) of 8 metaphases 12 (12-14) 44 (36-52) 56 (48-64) that could be detected (T able 46). Relative lengths of the six largest chromosomes are given in Table 47. Figure 49 depicts a metaphase. Table 47 Relativ e length in % (total length of all Rompas (1996) did not succeed in compiling a chromosomes = 100 %) of 6 macrochromosomes of representative karyogramme of the species. Eulipoa wallacei. Based on 8 metaphases (data from Rompas 1996). There are few data on the chromosome numbers of megapodes. Belterman & de Boer (1984) chromosome average range s.d. only listed two species ( Aepypodius arfakianus number and A. bruijnii) but A. bruijnii was misidentified and appeared to be A. arfakianus (R.H.R. 1 13.95 12.50 - 17.34 1.61 Belterman, pers. comm. 1996). The diploid 2 9.92 9.50 - 10.38 0.29 number of the remaining other megapode- 3 8.74 7.69 - 9.50 0.59 species known to cytology ( A. arfakianus) was 4 6.45 5.80 - 7.20 0.57 approximately 80. 5 5.72 4.20 - 6.15 0.60 6 5.21 3.85 - 6.02 0.67 Figure 49 Chromosome pattern of Eulipoa wallacei during metaphase. [photo: C.F.E. Rompas] 117 DEINSEA 3, 1997 APPENDIX 5 Local Indonesia n names and English names of Eulipoa wallacei and sympatr ically occurr ing other meg apode During our study, both in the library and in the Northeast Halmahera: mamor field, we encountered many different colloquial Misool: holeiko (Ripley 1960); sagoil (?) names for the same bird: Eulipoa wallacei. The same applies to Forsten’ s megapode 2 Megapodius for stenii Megapodius forstenii and to the dusky megapode Ambon, Haruku, Seram: maleo, maleo hitam Megapodius freycinet, two species that occur (hitam = black), maleo hutan (hutan = forest), sympatrically with Eulipoa wallacei.
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