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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of beautiful caprimulgine birds, the African standard-bearers, having a pair of the inner flight-feathers enormously extended and expanded, as in C. rexillarius and C. burtoni. G. R. Gray, 1840. Semiophorus is a synonym.

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