10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOACTZIN»
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The head of the hoactzin is ornamented with a semipendent. * Megapodiidie. \
Huxley made an independent group for the hemipodes (Turnicomorphce), but
other authors still retain them with the galline birds as the Turnieidce. The first-
named ...
The Hoactzin — Only Survivor of an Ancient Order of Four-footed Birds' Discovery
of the quadrupedal character of the young, and first-hand observations on habits
and home of the species By EDWARD M. B R I G H A M Curator Public ...
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
R68 (Zoology )] UF Arctomys caligatus Marmota caligata BT Marmots NT
Montague Island hoary marmot Hoary sagebrush USE Silver sagebrush Hoatson
family (Not Subd Geog) UF Hotson family RT Hewison family Hoatzin USE
Hoactzin ...
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... Geog) [QE809.06] BT Gastropoda, Fossil NT Actaeonellidae Opisthobranchiata
USE Opisthobranchia Opisthobursa USE Dimarcus Opisthocentridae USE
Gunnels Opisthocomi USE Hoactzin Opisthocomidae USE Hoactzin
Opisthoglyphia ...
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Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Quest for the Ivory-billed ...
The Anhinga is an amazing bird—a sort of Hoactzin of subtropical North America.
” (The hoactzin, also known as a hoatzin or “stink- bird,” is a peculiar, pheasant-
sized tropical bird with a spiky, rufous crest and a disagreeable, manure-like odor
...
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A general history of birds
Id. 8vo.i. 86. Borowsk. ii. 172. Opisthocomus, Sasa, 7Vm. 3fan. ii. p. xlix. Hoactzin,
Rati, 163. JPi//. 300. 7rf. £n#/. 389. Bu/. ii. 385. Faisun huppe de Cayenne, PI. enl.
337. Crested Pheasant, Gen. Syn. iv. 7'20. pi. 64. LENGTH twenty-one inches.
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Concise English Dictionary
hoactzin. See hoatzin. hoar hor. hor, adj. white or greyish-white, esp. with age or
frost. — n. hoariness: age.— n. hoar iness. — adj. hoar'y white or grey with age
ancient: covered with short, dense, whitish hairs (bot.). — hoar' -frost rime or
white ...
A M Will Inlands In the forest 8 of British Guiana, says the London Globe, livei the
hoactzin, a singular bird, whose young possess a free claw at the end of each
wing, which they use almost as the monkey uses his hands in tree climbing.
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Merriam-Webster's Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
... jab- iru, motmot, sappho, toucan 7 car- iama, cotinga, hoatzin, jacamar, limpkin,
manakin, seriema, tinamou 8 boatbill, caracara, curassow, guacharo, hoactzin,
screamer, ta- pacolo, tapaculo, terutero, troupial 9 campanero, trumpeter fa/king:
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The Hoactzin (Hoatzin or Hoazin) or Canje Pleasant differs from all other birds in
its internal structure and is therefore placed in an Order by itself. It has an
abnormally large crop, and to accommodate this, the breastbone keel is aborted
in the ...
