latirostres

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. In Sundevall's classification of birds, the fifth phalanx of the cohort Cichlomorphæ, embracing seven families more or less nearly related to the true flycatchers of the Old World (Muscicapidæ).
2. In Sclater's system of 1880, a group of laminiplantar oscine Passeres, embracing the Hirundinidæ or swallows: equivalent to the Chelidonomorphæ of Sundevall.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies.