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Natatores Slightly developed feet; Fissirostres. strong flight Grallatores Small mouths; long soft bills Tenuirostres. Rasores Strong feet, short wings; Scansores. docile and domestic Some comprehensive terms are much wanted to describe these five characters, so curiously repeated throughout the whole of the animal, and probably also the vegetable kingdom. Meanwhile, Mr.
Finally, the scansores resemble the rasores in their superior intelligence and docility, and in their having strong limbs and a bill entire at the tip. This parity of qualities becomes clearer when placed in a tabular form: Orders of Birds. Characters. Tribes of Incessores. Incessores Most perfect of their circle; Conirostres. notch of bill small Raptores Notch of bill like a tooth Dentirostres.
Of this bird, Professor Owen observes, "On comparing the osteology of the 'Talegalla' with that of other birds, it exhibits all the essential modifications which characterize the gallinaceous tribe; and among the Rasores, it most nearly resembles the genera Penelope and Crax."
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