Definitions
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- noun zoology Any of several
species of largebirds , found inAustralia andNew Guinea , in themegapode (turkey -like) familyMegapodiidae .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bruijn's brush-turkey (Aepypodius bruijnii) and the western crowned pigeon (Goura cristata) are considered vulnerable.
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To the mainland many of the birds and animals of the country are altogether confined; the Birds of paradise, the black cockatoo, the great brush-turkey, and the cassowary, are none of them found on Wamma or any of the detached islands.
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It is the flesh of the brush-turkey, a wild fowl which the bushmen or blackfellows bring in here to market.
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Once he was savagely pecked by an angry brush-turkey and forced to defend himself.
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It proved to be a brush-turkey, which he forthwith proceeded to pluck and prepare for the spit; lighting a fire meanwhile, so that it might burn well up and be in a fit state for cooking when wanted.
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I suppose the Talegallus -- the best-known brush-turkey -- must be looked on as an exception to all other birds with regard to the point I am considering; for this abnormal form buries its eggs in the huge mound made by the male, and troubles herself no more about them.
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Birds of paradise, the black cockatoo, the great brush-turkey, and the cassowary, are none of them found on Wamma or any of the detached islands.
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The latter said that he believed they were a species of the "brush-turkey," often found in New South Wales, and that their flesh was excellent.
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As they advanced they discovered our brush-turkey pen, and, greatly to our distress, some of them instantly stooped over, and began to seize the birds, and to fasten them by their legs round their waists.
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Overhead were numbers of cockatoos, parrots, and other birds of gay plumage, while now and then we caught sight of a brush-turkey running along rapidly over the ground.
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