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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In ornithology, a group of birds, embracing only the tinamous (Tinamidæ or Crypturi) of South America; birds which, although belonging to the Carinatæ, have the bones of the palate disposed substantially as in the Ratitæ. See dromæognathism.

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