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Webster 1913 Edition
Leipoa
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Lei-po′a
(lī̍-pō′ȧ)
, Noun.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (
Leipoa ocellata
), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant
. ☞ It makes large mounds of sand and vegetable material, in which its eggs are laid to be hatched by the heat of the decomposing mass.