Brush turkey
Brush turkey ({not transcribed})
(Zoology) A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodida. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.
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.