See also:

• MEGAPODE (Gr. t yas, great and robs, foot)

MEGAPODE (Gr. t yas, See also:

• GREAT

great and robs, See also:

• FOOT

foot)  , the name given generally to a small but remarkable See also:

• FAMILY

family of birds, characteristic of some parts of the Australian region, to which it is almost See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar . The Megapodiidae, with the Cracidae and Phasianidae, See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form that See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the sub-See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order Galli named by See also:

• HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY (1825–1895)

Huxley Peristeropodes (Proc . Zool . See also:

• SOC

Soc., 1868, p . 296) . Their most remarkable See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit is that of leaving their eggs to be hatched without See also:

• INCUBATION

incubation, burying them in the ground (as many See also:

• REPTILES (Lat. Reptilia, creeping things, from reptilis; ref ere, to creep; Gr. Ep7rety, whence the term " herpetology," for the science dealing with them)

reptiles do), or in a See also:

• MOUND

mound of See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth, leaves and rotten See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood which they scratch up . This habit attracted See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention nearly four See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred years ago,l but the accounts given of it by various travellers were generally discredited, and as examples of the birds, probably from their unattractive plumage, appear not to have been brought to See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, no one of them was seen by any ornithologist or scientifically described until near the end of the first See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The first member of the family to receive authoritative recognition was one of the largest, inhabiting the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent of See also:

• AUSTRALIA

Australia, where it is known as the See also:

• BRUSH (from Fr. brosse, which, like the English word, means both the undergrowth of a wood and the instrument; if the word in both these meanings is ultimately the same, then the origin is from a bundle of brushwood used as a brush or broom, but this is h
• BRUSH, GEORGE DE FOREST (1855– )

brush-See also:

• TURKEY

turkey, and was originally described by J . Latham in 1821 under the misleading name of the New See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland See also:

• VULTURE

vulture . It is the Catheturus lathami of See also:

• MODERN

modern ornithologists, and is nearly the See also:

• SIZE

size of a See also:

• HEN

hen turkey . This See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East Australian See also:

• BIRD

bird is of a sooty-See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

brown See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, relieved beneath by the lighter edging of some of the feathers, but the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head and See also:

• NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck are nearly See also:

• BARE

bare, beset with See also:

• FINE

fine bristles, the skin being of a deep pinkish-red, passing above the See also:

• BREAST (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. the Ger. Brust, possibly connected with an O. Sax. brustian, to bud)

breast into a large wattle of See also:

• BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
• BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

bright yellow . The tail is commonly carried upright and partly folded, some-thing like that of a domestic See also:

• FOWL (Dan. Fugl, Ger. Vogel)

fowl .

Allied to it are three or four See also:

• SPECIES

species of Talegallus, from New See also:

• GUINEA

Guinea and adjacent islands . Another form, an inhabitant of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South and See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West Australia, commonly known in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England as the mallee-bird, but to the colonists as the " native See also:

• PHEASANT

pheasant "—the Lipoa ocellata, as described by J . See also:

• GOULD, AUGUSTUS ADDISON (,8o5-1866)
• GOULD, BENJAMIN APTHORP (1824-1896)
• GOULD, JAY (1836-1892)
• GOULD, SIR FRANCIS CARRUTHERS (1844- )

Gould in the Proc . Zool . Soc . (1840), p . 126, has much shorter tarsi and toes, the head entirely clothed, and the tail See also:

• EXPANDED

expanded . Its plumage presents a See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of greys and browns of various tints, interspersed with See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black, See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white and See also:

• BUFF (from Fr. bu.ffie, a buffalo)

buff, the wing-coverts and feathers of the back bearing each near the tip an See also:

• OVAL (Lat. ovum, egg)

oval or subcircular patch, whence the scientific name of the bird is given, while a stripe of black feathers with a median See also:

• LINE

line of white extends down the front of the See also:

• THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat from the See also:

• CHIN

chin to the breast . There is but one species of this genus known, as is also the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case with the next to be mentioned, a bird See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long known to inhabit See also:

• CELEBES

Celebes, but not fully 1 See also:

• ANTONIO
• ANTONIO (1429—1498)
• ANTONIO, NICOLAS (1617-1684)

Antonio Pigafetta, one of the survivors of See also:

• MAGELLAN, FERDINAND (in Sp. FERNANDO MAGALLANES, in Port. FERNAO DE MAGALHAES) (c. 1480-152I)

Magellan's voyage, records in his ournal, under date of See also:

• APRIL

April 1521, among the peculiarities of the Philippine Islands, then first discovered by Europeans, the existence of a bird there, about the size of a fowl, which laid its eggs, as big as a See also:

• DUCK

duck's, in the See also:

• SAND
• SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)

sand, and See also:

• LEFT

left them to be hatched by the See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat of the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun (Premier voyage autour du monde, ed . Amoretti, See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, A.R. ix . 88) . More than a hundred years later the Jesuit See also:

• NIEREMBERG, JUAN EUSEBIO (1595–1658)

Nieremberg, in his Historic naturae, published at See also:

• ANTWERP
• ANTWERP (Fr. Anvers)

Antwerp in 1635, described (p .

207) a bird called " Daie," and by the natives named " Tapun," not larger than a See also:

• DOVE
• DOVE (Dutch duyve, Dan. due, Ice. dufa, Ger. Taube)

dove, which, with its tail (!) and feet excavated a See also:

• NEST

nest in sandy places and laid therein eggs bigger than those of a See also:

• GOOSE (a common Teut. word, O. Eng. gOs, pl. ges, Ger. Gans, O. Norse gas, from Aryan root, ghans, whence Sans. hansa, Lat. anser (for hanser)
• GOOSE (GAME OF)

goose . The publication at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome in 1651 of Hernandez's Hist. avium novae Hispaniae shows that his papers must have been accessible to Nieremberg, who took from them the passage just mentioned, but, as not unusual with him, misprinted the names which stand in Hernandez's See also:

• WORK

work (p . 56, cap . 220) " Daic " and " Tapum " respectively, and omitted his predecessor's important addition Viuit in Philippicis." Not long after, the Dominican See also:

• NAVARRETE, JUAN FERNANDEZ (1526-1579)
• NAVARRETE, MARTIN FERNANDEZ DE (1765–1844)

Navarrete, a missionary to See also:

• CHINA

China, made a considerable stay in the Philippines, and returning to Europe in 1673 wrote an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese See also:

• EMPIRE

empire, of which See also:

• CHURCHILL (MISSINNIPPI or ENGLISH)
• CHURCHILL, CHARLES (1731-1764)
• CHURCHILL, LORD RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER (1849-1895)

Churchill (Collection of Voyages and Travels, vol. i.) gave an See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation in 1704 . It is therein stated (p . 45) that in many of the islands of the See also:

• MALAY

Malay See also:

• ARCHIPELAGO

Archipelago " there is a very singular bird See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call'd Tabon," and that " What I and many more admire is, that it being no bigger in See also:

• BODY

body than an See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary chicken, tho' long legg'd, yet it See also:

• LAYS

lays an See also:

• EGG (O.E. aeg, cf. Ger. Ei, Swed. aegg, and prob. Gr. u,ov, Lat. ovum)
• EGG, AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD (1816-1863)

egg larger than a gooses, so that the egg is bigger than the bird itself . In order to See also:

• LAY

lay its eggs, it digs in the sand above a yard in See also:

• DEPTH

depth; after laying, it fills up the hole and makes it even with the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest; there the eggs See also:

• HATCH
• HATCH, EDWIN (1835-1889)

hatch with the heat of the sun and sand." Gemelli Careri, who travelled from 1663 to 1699, and in the latter See also:

• YEAR

year published an account of his voyage See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the See also:

• WORLD

world, gives similar See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence respecting this bird, which he calls " tavon," in the Philippine Islands (Voy. du tour du monde, ed . Paris, 1727, v . 157, 158)• The See also:

• MEGAPODE (Gr. t yas, great and robs, foot)

megapode of Luzon is fairly described by See also:

• CAMEL (from the Arabic Djemal or the Heb. Gamal)

Camel or Camelli in his observations on the birds of the Philippines communicated by Petiver to the Royal Society in 1703 (Phil . Trans. See also:

• XXIII

xxiii . 1398) . In 1726 Valentyn published his elaborate work on the East Indies, wherein (deel iii. bk. v. p .

320) he correctly describes the megapode of Amboina under the name of " malleloe," and also a larger See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind found in Celebes . described until 1846,1 when it received from Salomon See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller (See also:

• ARCH
• ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )

Arch. f . Naturgeschichte, xii. pt . 1, p . 116) the name of Macrocephalon maleo, but, being shortly afterwards figured by See also:

• GRAY
• GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
• GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
• GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
• GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
• GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
• GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
• GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
• GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
• GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
• GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
• GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
• GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)

Gray and See also:

• MITCHELL
• MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT (1822—1908)
• MITCHELL, MARIA (1818—1889)
• MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR (1830-)
• MITCHELL, SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTONE (1792-1855)

Mitchell (Gen . Birds, iii. p1 . 123) under the generic See also:

• TERM

term of Megacephalon, has since commonly See also:

• BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne the latter appellation . This bird bears a See also:

• HELMET (from an obsolete diminutive of O. Fr. helme, mod. heaume; the English word is " helm," as in O. Eng., Dutch and Ger.; all are from the Teutonic base hal-, pre-Teut. kal-, to cover; cf. Lat. celare, to hide, Eng. " hell," &c.)

helmet-like protuberance on the back of its head, all of which, as well as the neck, is bare and of a bright red colour; the plumage of the body is glossy black above, and beneath roseate-white . Of the megapodes proper, constituting the genus Megapodius, about fifteen species are admitted . The birds of this genus range from the See also:

• SAMOA

Samoa Islands in the east, through the See also:

• TONGA, or FRIENDLY ISLANDS (so called by Captain Cook)

Tonga See also:

• GROUP

group, to the New See also:

• HEBRIDES, THE, or WESTERN ISLES

Hebrides, the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• PART

part of Australia, New Guinea and its neighbouring islands, Celebes, the Pelew Islands and the Ladrones, and have also outliers in detached portions of the See also:

• INDIAN

Indian Region, as the Philippines (where indeed they were first discovered by Europeans), See also:

• LABUAN (a corruption of the Malay word labuh-an, signifying an " anchorage ")

Labuan, and even the Nicobars—though none is known from the intervening islands of See also:

• BORNEO

Borneo, See also:

• JAVA

Java or See also:

• SUMATRA

Sumatra . Within what may be deemed their proper See also:

• AREA

area they are found, says A . R .

See also:

• WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL (1823— )
• WALLACE, LEWIS [LEW] (1827—1905)
• WALLACE, SIR RICHARD
• WALLACE, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1270-1305)
• WALLACE, WILLIAM (1768-1843)
• WALLACE, WILLIAM (1844-1897)
• WALLACE, WILLIAM VINCENT (1814-1865)

Wallace (Geogr . Distr . Animals, ii . 341), " on the smallest islands and sandbanks, and can evidently pass over a few See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles of See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea with ease." Indeed, See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof of their roaming disposition is afforded by the fact that the bird described by See also:

• LESSON (through Fr. lecon from Lat. lectio, reading; legere, to read)

Lesson (Voy . Coquille: Zoologie, p . 703) as Alecihelia urvillii, but now considered to be the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young of Megapodius freycineti, flew on See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board his See also:

• SHIP

ship when more than 2 M. from the nearest See also:

• LAND

land (Guebe), in an exhausted See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, it is true, but that may be attributed to its youth . The species of Megapodius are about the size of small fowls, the head generally crested, the tail very See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short, the feet enormous, and, with the exception of M. wallacii (Prot . Zool . Soc., 186o, Aves, p1 . 171), from the See also:

• MOLUCCAS, or SPICE ISLANDS

Moluccas, all have a sombre plumage . Megapodes are shy terrestrial birds, of heavy See also:

• FLIGHT

flight, and omnivorous See also:

• DIET

diet . In some islands they are semi-domesticated, although the flesh is dark and generally unpalatable .

(A .