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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In Merrem's classification of birds (1813), a group equivalent to the Steganopodes or Totipalmati of authors, containing such genera as Pelecanus, Phaëton, and Plotus, or the pelicans, gannets, cormorants, anhingas, tropic-birds, etc.

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