leipoa

The Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken (to which it is distantly related). It occupies semi-arid mallee scrub on the fringes of the relatively fertile areas of southern Australia, where it is now reduced to three separate populations: the Murray-Murrumbidgee basin, west of Spencer Gulf along the fringes of the Simpson Desert, and the semi-arid fringe of Western Australia's fertile south-west corner.
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Noun
1. Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds
(synonym) mallee fowl, lowan, Leipoa ocellata
(hypernym) megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, mound builder, scrub fowl
(hyponym) mallee hen
(member-holonym) genus Leipoa

n. leipoa

(n.)
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.