Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Cuvier's classification of birds, the first family of Grallæ, comprising the ostriches and cassowaries, emus, dodos, and didine birds, and the apteryx: an artificial group, but in the main the same as
Struthiones or Ratitæ.
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_brevipennes_, such as the penguins and the _manchots_, have given origin to the monotremes.
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