A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (
Talegalla Lathami) of the family
Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. [
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" The brush turkeys live in the “brush,” and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap of decaying vegetable matter, which generates heat sufficient to hatch the numerous eggs (sometimes half a bushel) deposited in it by the females of the flock."
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