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The division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, or all living birds except the penguins and birds of ostrichlike form.

fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipiduræ, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.

Marked with spots like eyes. Junno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. Spenser.

The nest of a bird of prey or other large bird that builds in a lofty place; aerie. The eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build. Milton.

The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill. Facies Hippocratica. (Med.) See Hippocratic.

Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined. Men and birds are fain of climbing high. Shak. To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business. Jer. Taylor.

Given by fairies; as, fairy money. Dryden. Fairy bird (Zoöl.), the Euoropean little tern (Sterna minuta); -- called also sea swallow, and hooded tern. -- Fairy bluebird. (Zoöl.) See under Bluebird. -- Fairy martin (Zoöl.), a European swallow (Hirrundo ariel) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on overhanging cliffs…

One of a family (Falconidæ) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.

A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.

One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice.

ing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zoöl.), a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola ænanthe). See Wheatear.

est in, a particular object or class or objects; hence, one who breeds and keeps for sale birds and animals; as, bird fancier, dog fancier, etc.

Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.

Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.

A pheasantlike bird of rich plumage and graceful form and movement, fabled to appear in the land on the accession of a sage to the throne, or when right principles are about to prevail. It is often represented on porcelains and other works of art.

Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants. feral child, not raised by humans

al fig. See Conchineal fig. -- Fig dust, a preparation of fine oatmeal for feeding caged birds. -- Fig faun, one of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs. "Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns." Jer. i. 39. (Douay version). -- Fig gnat (Zoöl.), a small fly said to be injurio…