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Megapodius tumulus
The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate. -- Balfour (Cyc. of India). Jungle bear (Zo["o]l.), the aswail or sloth bear. Jungle cat (Zo["o]l.), the chaus. Jungle cock (Zo["o]l.), the male of a jungle fowl. Jungle fowl. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl (G. varius) of Java, G. Stanleyi of Ceylon, and G. Bankiva of India. Note: The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic fowl was derived. (b) An Australian grallatorial bird (Megapodius tumulus) which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter, where they are hatched by the heat produced by decomposition.

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- taxonomic order are: †Pile-builder scrubfowl (Megapodius molistructor) †Viti Levu scrubfowl (Megapodius amissus) In all of the above, the name "scrubfowl"...
- included in Megapodius) Moluccan megapode, Eulipoa wallacei. Genus: Megapodius Tongan megapode, Megapodius pritchardii Micronesian megapode, Megapodius laperouse...
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to Megapodius reinwardt. Wikispecies has information related to Megapodius reinwardt. BirdLife Species Factsheet...
- Megapode (Megapodius ****ingii), version 1.0". Birds of the World. doi:10.2173/bow.tabscr1.01. ISSN 2771-3105. IUCN (2 February 2021). Megapodius ****ingii:...
- The Nicobar megapode or Nicobar scrubfowl (Megapodius nicobariensis) is a megapode found in some of the Nicobar Islands (India). Like other megapode relatives...
- The dusky megapode (Megapodius freycinet), also known as dusky scrubfowl or common megapode, is a medium-sized, approximately 41 cm (16 in) long, blackish...
- The Micronesian megapode or Micronesian scrubfowl (Megapodius laperouse) is an endangered megapode which inhabits islands of the Western Pacific Ocean...
- have been recognized, the Pteroptochos megapodius megapodius (von Kittlitz, 1830) and the Pteroptochos megapodius atacamae (R. A Philippi-B, 1946). The...
- Eulipoa is monotypic, but the Moluccan megapode is sometimes placed in Megapodius instead. Both ****es are similar with an olive-brown plumage, bluish-grey...
- montane forest. This species was formerly known as Megapodius affinis but Roselaar, 1994 showed that Megapodius affinis A. B. Meyer, 1874 refers to M. reinwardt...