This species has bred in the Zoological Society's Gardens, where the active young left the mound within twenty-four hours of being hatched. A. D. Bartlett, P.Z.S. 1860, pp. 426, 427. C. purpureicollis has been recently described from Cape York.
P.Z.S. 1868, p. 301.
Bronn's Thier-Reich, Aves, Syst. Theil. 1893, p. 172.
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxii. 1893.
This name, and the Latin Meleagris, seem to have originally belonged to the Guinea-Fowl. M. gallipavo, the origin of our farm-yard Turkey, was domesticated in Europe by about 1530. Cf. A. Newton, Dict. Birds, 1896, pp. 994-996.