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A plumiped bird.

The crocodile bird.

, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.

The foot joint; in birds, the joint between the metatarsus and the toes.

The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.

The parson bird.

xial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing.

plied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work. Hence: Poonah brush, paper, painter, etc.

nglish parish, for the relief or support of the poor. -- Poor soldier (Zoöl.), the friar bird. -- The poor, those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public. "I have observed the more public provisions are made for the poor, the l…

A bird of the Western United States (Phalænoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.

e thigh of an ox or sheep. R. D. Blackmore. -- Pope's nose, the rump, or uropygium, of a bird. See Uropygium.

The claw or talon of a bird of prey. Spenser. Burke.

The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. Carew.

peculiar kind of modified feathers which sometimes form patches on certain parts of some birds. They have a greasy texture and a scaly exfoliation. -- Powder-down patch (Zoöl.), a tuft or patch of powder-down feathers. -- Powder hose, a tube of strong linen, about an inch in diameter, filled with powder and used in…

A division of birds including those whose young are able to run about when first hatched.

Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidæ, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail.

nculcates anything with earnestness. No preacher is listened to but Time. Swift. Preacher bird (Zoöl.), a toucan.

t of the bronchus; -- applied especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.

ss with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds. Derham.

One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.