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constrictipedes

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In ornithology, a subclass of birds, proposed by Hogg in 1846 upon physiological considerations: opposed to his Inconstrictipedes, and corresponding approximately with the Altrices of Bonaparte and with the Psilopædes or Gymnopædes of Sundevall.

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