Orange-footed scrubfowl or orange-footed megapode, Megapodius reinwardt, with egg. Native to the Sunda Islands, New Guinea and Australia. The megapodius of Reinwardt, Megapodius reinwardtii. From a specimen in the Paris Museum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1830.

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