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from The Century Dictionary.
- In Macgillivray's classification, an order of birds, the sifters, as the geese and ducks: equivalent to the family Anatidæ, or the anserine birds: so named from their manner of feeding as it were by sifting or straining edible substances from the water by means of their lamellate bills.
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