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from The Century Dictionary.
- A subdivision of Huxley's superfamily Alectoromorphæ, containing the true fowl and related to the domestic hen, as pheasants, turkeys, guinea-fowl, grouse, partridges, quail, etc.: distinguished from those gallinaceous birds, as the Megapodidæ and Cracidæ, which have the feet more as in pigeons, and are therefore called
Peristeropodes . See cuts under Cupidonia, grouse, partridge, and quail.
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