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An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.

A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand.

A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.

The mantle of a bird.

Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.

Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. See Illust. (i) under Aves.

A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.

A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.

A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.

nd Limbo. -- Grains of paradise. (Bot.) See Melequeta pepper, under Pepper. -- Paradise bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Bird of paradise. Among the most beautiful species are the superb (Lophorina superba); the magnificent (Diphyllodes magnifica); and the six-shafted paradise bird (Parotia sefilata). The long-billed paradise b…

Having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds.

A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.

s licensed to preach; a preacher. He hears the parson pray and preach. Longfellow. Parson bird (Zoöl.), a New Zealand bird (Prosthemadera Novæseelandiæ) remarkable for its powers of mimicry and its ability to articulate words. Its color is glossy black, with a curious tuft of long, curly, white feathers on each side of…

Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidæ, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. Full many a fat partrich had he in mew. Chaucer.

r, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body. What! are my doors opposed against my passage! Shak.

A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.