'Megapodius' is dark and flavorless, being a mass of hard muscle and sinew. birds, which may be called game, are not numerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland] Reference

The island is further remarkable from the fact that the Megapodius, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference

The vulnerable Moluccan scrubfowl (Megapodius wallacei) is also found on Buru and Halmahera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seram rain forests] Reference

Two of the endemics are threatened (VU or above) (Megapodius nicobariensis, Hypsipetes nicobariensis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicobar Islands rain forests] Reference

The only birds at all common were the great red parrot (Eclectus grandis), found in most of the Moluccas, a crow, and a Megapodius, or mound-maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

In total 16 restricted-range species are found in Palau, and one of these, the Micronesian scrubfowl (Megapodius laperouse) is considered endangered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palau tropical moist forests] Reference

Some 72 species of birds have been recorded, including yellow-crested cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea (V), noisy friar bird Philemon buceroides and common scrubhen Megapodius freycinet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Komodo National Park, Indonesia] Reference

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

Additionally, one species not listed in Table 2 is Nicobar scrubfowl (Megapodius nicobariensis), which used to live in both the Andamans and Nicobars but is now found only in the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andaman Islands rain forests] Reference

Protected Areas Two protected areas on New Britain contain nearly all of the lowland birds, including nesting sites of the Melanesian scrubfowl (Megapodius eremita): Pokili (98 square kilometers (km2)) and Garu Wildlife Management Areas (87 km2).    From Wordnik.com.  [New Britain-New Ireland lowland rain forests] Reference

Birds includes herons Egretta sacra, stork-billed kingfisher Pelargopsis capensis, collared scops owl Otus bakkamoena, white bellied swiftlet Collocalia esculenta, pygmy swiftlet C. troglodytes, scrub-hen Megapodius freycinet cumingii and sea eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park, Philippines] Reference

'Megapodius Tumulus' is also worthy of mention, on account of the surprising structure of its nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland] Reference

I was so fortunate as to discover a new species (Megapodius wallacei), which inhibits Gilolo, Ternate, and Bouru.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

The brush turkey ( 'Talegalla'), the 'Megapodius', several species of pigeon, with a few ducks and quail, comprise the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland] Reference

The day previous their larder had been recruited by three iguanas 'eggs, a brush turkey (' Megapodius Tumulus '), and nine turkeys' eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland] Reference

Some small honeysuckers of the genus Ptilotis, and the strange moundmaker (Megapodius gouldii), are also here first met with on the traveller's journey eastward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference

Of this rubbish the Megapodius forms immense mounds, often six or eight feet high and twenty or thirty feet in diameter, which they are enabled to do with comparative ease, by means of their large feet, with which they can grasp and throw backwards a quantity of material.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

Six of these species are considered vulnerable: Moluccan scrubfowl (Megapodius wallacei), blue-fronted lorikeet (Charmosyna toxopei), black-lored parrot (Tanygnathus gramineus), Buru cuckoo-shrike (Coracina fortis), streaky-breasted jungle-flycatcher (Rhinomyias addita), and rufous-throated white-eye (Madanga ruficollis), which represents a monotypic genus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buru rain forests] Reference

A number of these restricted-range species are threatened, including the critically endangered Mariana crow (Corvus kubaryi) and Rota bridled white-eye (Zosterops rotensis), the endangered Micronesian megapode (Megapodius laperouse), Guam swiftlet (Collacalia bartschi), Nightingale reed-warbler (Acrocephalus luscinia), and vulnerable Tinian Monarch (Monarcha takatsukasae) and golden white-eye (Cleptornis marchei).    From Wordnik.com.  [Marianas tropical dry forests] Reference

Status of the Polynesian Megapode (Megapodius pritchardii) on Niuafo’ou (Tonga).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tongan tropical moist forests] 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

Some small honeysuckers of the genus Ptilotis, and the strange moundmaker (Megapodius gouldii), are also here first met with on the traveller’s journey eastward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

Moluccas, a crow, and a Megapodius, or mound-maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

They are all characterised by very large feet and long curved claws, and most of the species of Megapodius rake and scratch together all kinds of rubbish, dead leaves, sticks, stones, earth, rotten wood, etc., until they form a large mound, often six feet high and twelve feet across, in the middle of which they bury their eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference