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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Sundevall's system of classification, a group of birds of prey consisting primarily of the American vultures or Cathartides, considered as one of the cohorts of Aceipitres, but with certain other genera, as Polyborus, Milvago, Daptrius, and Dicholophus, appended. See cut under Cathartes.

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