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The birds look like turkeys, and one of the species is called the "brush turkey," but they are no bigger than an ordinary chicken—than a rather small chicken, in fact.

They based their paper on the observation of day-old Australian brush turkey chicks.

The brush turkey of Australia is strange in that it does not take its family duties at all seriously.

The brush turkey scratches together a huge mound of sticks and leaves, four feet by ten or twelve wide at the base.

Kangaroos and wallabies are very frequent; several brush turkeys were seen, and the partridge and bronze-winged pigeons are very plentiful.