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Quail :: Quail (n.) A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.

Gressorious :: Gressorious (a.) Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird..

Moult :: Moult (v. t.) To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird..

Motacil :: Motacil (n.) Any singing bird of the genus Motacilla; a wagtail.

Shoebill :: Shoebill (n.) A large African wading bird (Balaeniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak..

Secretary :: Secretary (n.) The secretary bird.

Commissure :: Commissure (n.) The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc..

Bluebreast :: Bluebreast (n.) A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.

Zooerythrine :: Zooerythrine (n.) A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the feathers of various birds.

Redbird :: Redbird (n.) The cardinal bird.

Fauvette :: Fauvette (n.) A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers..

Apteria :: Apteria (n. pl.) Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliae.

Oxbird :: Oxbird (n.) The sanderling.

Antitrochanter :: Antitrochanter (n.) An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

Diurnal :: Diurnal (a.) Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects..

Goose :: Goose (n.) Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres..

Pleurosteon :: Pleurosteon (n.) The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds.

Squab :: Squab (n.) A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged..

Tomnoddy :: Tomnoddy (n.) A sea bird, the puffin..

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