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Science 23 March 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5512, p. 2309
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5512.2309a
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Yet another reputedly "extinct" species has made a reappearance--this time as leftovers from a pig hunter's supper on an island off New Guinea.

Bruijn's Brush-Turkey is one of 22 species of megapodes, which are distinguished by their unusual habit of incubating their eggs in warm soils or mounds of rotting leaves. Last seen on the island of Waigeu in 1938, the turkey has been the object of a search by a Dutch-Indonesian expedition headed by Kees Heij of the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam. On 23 February, they got lucky: A Waigeu hunter brought a head and some bones--the remains of a bush dinner--to Kris Tindige, an Indonesian member of the expedition. He and Heij are now scouring the densely forested island for further evidence of the elusive bird.

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