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A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.

A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.

A group of perching birds which are anisodactylous.

haracterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.

A bird one year old, or that has once molted.

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly. Darwin.

A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.

One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants.

A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds. Ray.

To celebrate with anthems. [Poet.] Sweet birds antheming the morn. Keats.

he grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.

The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.

A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper. And fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage. Wordsworth.

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

tal appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.