Megapodius Collection

Moustached treeswift and moustached turca
Moustached treeswift, Hemiprocne mystacea, and moustached turca, Pteroptochos megapodius. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris

Dusky scrubfowl and red-billed brushturkey
Alecthelia urvillii (believed to be a juvenile dusky scrubfowl, Megapodius freycineti), and red-billed brushturkey, Talegalla cuvieri

Orange-footed scrubfowl and Micronesian scrubfowl
Orange-footed scrubfowl, Megapodius reinwardt, and Micronesian scrubfowl, Megapodius laperouse (endangered).Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon

Duperreys scrub fowl and dusky scrub fowl
Duperreys scrub fowl, Megapodius duperreyi, and dusky scrubfowl, Megapodius freycineti. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris

Megapodius Tumulus, orange-footed scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt), a mound-raising Megapole, with its nest in the background. Date: 1842

Megapodius reinwardt tumulus eggs
Eggs of the orange-footed scrubfowl, Megapodius reinwardt tumulus, collected by John MacGillivray in Port Essington, Northern Territory, November 1844 Date: 1844

Polynesian Megapode (young and adult)
Polynesian Megapode, Megapodius pritchardi (young and adult). Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.4 Plate 62 Date: 1888

Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos, and red-breasted
Scrubfowl (orange-footed scrubfowl, Megapodius reinwardt?) and Cape francolin, Pternistis capensis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural

Megapodius decollatus, New Guinea megapode
Plate 36 from Louis-Isidore Duperreys Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, (1826). From drawings made during his voyage to Chile, Peru, Polynesia, Indoneasia

Layards Megapode
LAYARDs MEGAPODE megapodius layardi

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