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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the subfamily Gallinulinæ, formerly coextensive therewith, now restricted to such species as the common gallinule of Europe, G. chloropus, or that of America, G. galeata.
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- noun gallinules
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The jack-snipe (_G. gallinula_) seems never to appear before
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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