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Racket-tail :: Racket-tail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae..

Albuminin :: Albuminin (n.) The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs.

Frontlet :: Frontlet (n.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles..

Barbet :: Barbet (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa..

Lure :: Lure (n.) A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks..

Sitter :: Sitter (n.) A bird that sits or incubates.

Screechers :: Screechers (n. pl.) The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds..

Lyrated :: Lyrated (a.) Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird..

Tarsometatarsus :: Tarsometatarsus (n.) The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus.

Openbill :: Openbill (n.) A bird of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open-beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak..

Hypoptilum :: Hypoptilum (n.) An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

Sauropsida :: Sauropsida (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds..

Forktail :: Forktail (n.) One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking..

Ornithopappi :: Ornithopappi (n. pl.) An extinct order of birds. It includes only the Archaeopteryx.

Tylarus :: Tylarus (n.) One of the pads on the under surface of the toes of birds.

Hematotherma :: Hematotherma (n. pl.) The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya..

Beambird :: Beambird (n.) A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building..

Wishbone :: Wishbone (n.) The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum..

Corniplume :: Corniplume (n.) A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

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