Megapodiidae
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Megapodes are unusual galliform birds that use passive heat sources to incubate their eggs. Evolutionary relationships of extant…
Australia’s largest megapode was Progura gallinacea De Vis, 1888, from Plio-Pleistocene deposits in southeastern Queensland. A…
Megapode chicks hatch underground at a depth of between 40 and 150 cm, where external heat sources incubate the eggs. They dig…
Inter- and intrafamilial relationships among the Megapodiidae are presented and discussed based on their host-specific chewing…
Abstract Abstract. Malleefowl artificially incubate their eggs in mounds containing decaying vegetation. The effort involved in…
Pereziella gen. n. (Pterolichidae, Pterolichinae) and 2 new species of feather mites from the Magapodiidae are described, namely…
CHANDLER, L.G. 1913. Birds of the Kow Plains (Victoria). 33-51. Emu 13: 33-45. LEA, A.M. & J.T. GRAY. 1935. The food of…
An analysis of the zoogeography of the Megapodiidae and Phasianidae shows these families to have a mutually exclusive and…
INTRODUCTION Recently the writer has discussed the arrangement of the arteries in the region of the heart of birds (3, 5, 6), the…