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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The woodpeckers as a superfamily of birds of desmognathous affinities but uncertain morphological position, the group being defined with special reference to its peculiarities of palatal structure, and comprehending only the families Picidæ and Iyngidæ. Also called Saurognathæ.

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