A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (
Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also
native pheasant. [
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" It makes large mounds of sand and vegetable material, in which its eggs are laid to be hatched by the heat of the decomposing mass."
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