alectorides

from The Century Dictionary.

• In Nitzsch's classification (1829), a group of birds represented by the genera Dicholophus and Otis.
• In Temminck's classification, a group of birds of uncertain extent.
• A. suborder or order of birds which includes the cranes, rails, and their allies.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.