mound-makers

Updated: July 15, 2026

Next to these come the kingfishers, including sixteen species, almost all of which are beautiful, end many are among the most brilliantly-coloured birds that exist. One of the most curious groups of birds, the Megapodii, or mound-makers, is very abundant in the Moluccas.

Alfred Russel Wallace - The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2