Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- The rasorial birds proper, commonly rated as an order or suborder, and containing all kinds of domestic fowls or poultry, and their feral relatives, as turkeys, pheasants, grouse, partridges, quails, guinea-fowls, the mound-birds of Australia, the curassows, hoccos, guans, etc.: equivalent to the old order Rasores minus the pigeons. It is an old name of the group, used with varying latitude, and now less frequently employed than Gallinæ (which see for technical characters). Also
Galli .
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Same as gallinae.
Examples
“A few days afterwards, Herbert snared a couple of gallinaceae, with spreading tails composed of long feathers, magnificent alectors, which soon became tame.”
“The jerks attracted the attention of the gallinaceae, and they attacked the hooks with their beaks.”
“There under the shade of the trees fluttered several couples of gallinaceae belonging to the pheasant species.”
“They walked along, pecking the ground, and not suspecting in any way the presence of the hunters, who, besides, had taken care to place themselves to leeward of the gallinaceae.”
“During one of these excursions, Gideon Spilett managed to get hold of two couples of living gallinaceae.”
“Pencroft determined to get hold of at least one of these gallinaceae, which were as large as a fowl, and whose flesh is better than that of a pullet.”
“In a quite distinct set of birds, the gallinaceae, we find the ornamental plumage usually arising from very different parts, in the form of elongated tail-feathers or tail-coverts, and of ruffs or hackles from the neck.”
“Here the wings are comparatively little used, the most constant activities depending on the legs, since the gallinaceae are pre-eminently walking, running, and scratching birds.”
“With respect to the habit of the granivorous birds, particularly the gallinaceae and ostriches, of swallowing sand and small pebbles, it has been hitherto attributed to an instinctive desire of accelerating the trituration of the aliments in a muscular and thick stomach.”
“They, in fact, belonged to an order of birds closely allied to the gallinaceous tribe, and representing it on the continent of Australia as also in several of the Austro-Malayan islands, where the true gallinaceae do not exist.”
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