||Lei*po"a (l&isl;*pō"&adot;), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant.

&fist; It makes large mounds of sand and vegetable material, in which its eggs are laid to be hatched by the heat of the decomposing mass.