brush turkey

British  

noun

1. any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami , of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)

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Example Sentences

We then rode up to the camp, and found their dinner ready, consisting of two eggs of the brush turkey, roasted opossums, bandicoots, and iguanas.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig

But 201 how all this pales before the accomplishment of a young brush turkey or moundbuilder of the antipodes.

From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by Beebe, William

The brush turkey of Australia is strange in that it does not take its family duties at all seriously.

From Peeps At Many Lands: Australia by Spence, Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton)

The birds look like turkeys, and one of the species is called the "brush turkey," but they are no bigger than an ordinary chicken—than a rather small chicken, in fact.

From The Adventures of a Grain of Dust by Hawksworth, Hallam

The brush turkey scratches together a huge mound of sticks and leaves, four feet by ten or twelve wide at the base.

From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by Hornaday, William Temple