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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A superfamily of macrochiran non-passerine birds, containing the swifts, goatsuckers, and humming-birds; the long-handed series of picarian birds: nearly the same as the Macrochires, and the same as the Cypseloides of Blyth and CypselomorphÅ“ of Huxley.

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