Megapodius

I now recollected having heard from Mr Hooker of a bird called the megapodius, which lays its eggs in large heaps. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Of birds, two species of the genus Pteroptochos (megapodius and albicollis of Kittlitz) are perhaps the most conspicuous. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The maternal instinct of the megapodius ceases with the laying of eggs, and, having supplied a safe cradle for the rising generation, she takes no further thought for her precocious progeny, capable of securing a livelihood in the unknown world from the moment of their first appearance in public. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)

The megapodius or mound-maker, an ash-coloured bird about the size of a small fowl, grasps sand or soil in the hollow of a powerful claw, and throws it backwards into mounds six feet high, wherein the eggs are deposited, to be hatched by this natural incubator, through the heat of the vegetable matter contained in the rubbish heap. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)

They are from South America; the tinamous, from the warmer parts of the Continent; and the megapodius, of Australia and the Asiatic islands. ❋ W. Blanchard Jerrold (1855)