The bird we came across was called a megapode, and it has a very similar outlook on life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Chance to See]

“Elia” (and others) the megapode has no ear for music.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference

The Australian brush turkey is a megapode in the family Megapodiidae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

The megapode seems to delight in flying in the face of laws to which ordinary fowls are obedient.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference

The important thing is that the megapode has worked out a wonderful labour-saving device for itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Chance to See]

A good-conditioned megapode weighs 3 lb., the egg 5 1/4 oz.; ordinary domestic fowl, 4 lb., egg 2 oz.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference

When it drifted ashore — a godsend to the boys — it was found to be a megapode — and the feat was camp talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference

Wildlife exploitation threatens the edible-nest swiftlet in the Nicobars, the Nicobar megapode, crocodiles, and sea turtles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicobar Islands rain forests] Reference

All other species of megapode in Polynesia have been extirpated, and the nearest extant species is in Vanuatu, 1,600 km west.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tongan tropical moist forests] Reference

The name 'megapode,' meaning 'big foot,' refers to the long, raking-friendly toes characteristic of the birds in this family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

One very unbirdlike thing that all species of megapode do is to bury their eggs and allow an external heat source to incubate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

In ornithological parlance, megapode chicks are 'highly precocial,' which is to say that they are mind-bogglingly talented and well developed when they hatch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

Comparisons between the egg of the cassowary (one of the giants among birds) and of the common fowl with that of the megapode, are highly complimentary to the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference

There are 22 species of megapodes scattered across the Australo-Pacific region, with three (the brush turkey, the malleefowl and the orange-footed megapode) native to Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

By judicious additions or subtractions of material from the mound the megapode is able to keep it at the precise temperature which the eggs require in order to incubate properly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Chance to See]

It also provides habitat for the endangered Marianas megapode (Megapodius laperouse laperouse), and the skink Emoia slevini, which was formerly known only from Guam, Rota, and Tinian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marianas tropical dry forests] Reference

Discovered so far are a giant pigeon (Ducula david), two species of megapode, a giant land iguana, a 3 m land crocodile, a giant frog (Discodeles guppyi), a large horned tortoise (Myolania sp).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiji tropical moist forests] Reference

The downside, I suppose, is that I cannot conceive of any future occasion that I am likely to need to know the volume of a megapode nest, but no matter: the volume of this mound is a little over nine cubic yards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Chance to See]

Scrub turkeys (TALLEGALLA LATHAMI), mound builders like the megapode, are plentiful all along the coast, at certain seasons visiting the scrub which margins the opposite beach, but they are not found on these islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference

During the season, he lived almost entirely on megapode eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

The birds were a species of megapode, which are found chiefly in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rival Crusoes] Reference

In truth, he cared no more for megapode meat than for any other meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

Wherefore, he alone of all Somo, barred rigidly by taboo, ate megapode eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

/8 per cent., and that of megapode no less than 11 1/2 per cent of its weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference

Now the megapode of the Solomons is a distant cousin to the brush turkey of Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

About twenty eggs are deposited in abandoned megapode nests and incubated for seven to eight months, hatching in.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Global climate change causing decline in lizard species] Reference

About twenty eggs are deposited in abandoned megapode nests and incubated for seven to eight months, hatching in April, when insects are most plentiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Global climate change causing decline in lizard species] Reference

There are four threatened species that could be affected by the removal project: the Mariana fruit bat, Mariana swiftlet, Micronesia megapode and Nightingale reed-warbler.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The megapode, with no sense of fear, is so silly that it would have been annihilated hundreds of centuries before had it not been preserved by the taboos of the chiefs and priests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

He ate out of a sense of necessity and duty, and cared little for what he ate, save for one thing: the eggs of the megapodes that were, in season, laid in his private, personal, strictly tabooed megapode laying-yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

The Niuafo’ou megapode (Megapodius pritchardii) is restricted to the island of Niuafo’ou where it buries its eggs in the warm sands near volcanic ducts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tongan tropical moist forests] Reference

Of a surety, the megapode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 16] Reference

A megapode hen in the act of laying.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XVI] Reference

Of a surety, the megapode. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference