Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, patridge, and the like.
A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys.
Having pigeonlike feet; -- said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and megapods.
I had expected that some of the chickens whilst covered with down would have assumed the longitudinal stripes so general with gallinaceous birds; but this did not occur in a single instance.
Several breeds are abnormal in character; that is, they differ in certain points from all wild Gallinaceous birds.
The larger gallinaceous birds, as Mr. Blyth has remarked (7/26.
This little fact is interesting; because, though both sexes of some wild gallinaceous birds have their heads similarly ornamented, yet there is often a difference in the size and shape of feathers forming their crests.
In wild gallinaceous species the relative length and number of the main wing and tail-feathers are extremely constant.
Daniell tells me, he believes that fowls have become wild on the west coast of Equatorial Africa; they may, however, not be true fowls, but gallinaceous birds belonging to the genus Phasidus.
From the character of the other gallinaceous birds of Africa, it is not probable that Gallus is an African genus.
Judging from the habits of our European gallinaceous birds, Gallus bankiva in its native haunts would use its legs and wings more than do our domestic fowls, which rarely fly except to their roosts.
Their occurrence may be considered as a case of analogous variation, for some wild gallinaceous birds, for instance, the Polyplectron, have double spurs.
He did not succeed in rearing them to maturity; but as he remarks, "no wild gallinaceous bird thrives well at first on hard grain.
From this character, from the length of its legs, scratching feet, membranous covering to the nostrils, short and arched wings, this bird seems in a certain degree to connect the thrushes with the gallinaceous order.
Peculiar to Malaysia and Australia are the Megapodes, a family of gallinaceous birds allied to the Curassows of America, and which hatch their eggs by depositing them in mounds of decaying vegetation.
Several plants and animals which are found in Austro-Malaysia and the Western Pacific islands, but not in India or Further India, make their appearance in the Nicobars; amongst others the Megapode gallinaceous birds.
Their mode of drinking differs from that of the true gallinaceous birds; they do not take short sips, lifting the head after every draught, but satisfy their thirst by one continuous immersion of the whole bill.
The Pigeons in some of their habits approach the gallinaceous birds, with which accordingly they are classed.
In 1868, in the course of a memoir on the anatomy of the gallinaceous birds and their allies, he made a useful attempt, nearly the first of its kind, to correlate anatomical facts with geographical distribution.
The number of gallinaceousbirds is extremely limited.
It has gained its name from the slight external resemblance that it bears to the gallinaceous form.
Among the most striking are the gallinaceous birds.
With the exception of some small partridge-like gallinaceous birds, the representatives of this family in Brazil belong to types which do not exist in any other parts of the world.
From the character of the other gallinaceous {238} birds of Africa, it is not probable that Gallus is an African genus.
Judging from the habits of our European gallinaceous birds, Gallus bankiva in its native haunts would use its legs and wings more than do our domestic fowls, which rarely fly except to their roosts.
He did not succeed in rearing them to maturity; but, as he remarks, "no wild gallinaceous bird thrives well at first on hard grain.
They are allied to the gallinaceous birds, but differ from these and from all others in never sitting upon their eggs, which they bury in sand, earth, or rubbish, and leave to be hatched by the heat of the sun or by fermentation.
Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidæ, of the Old World.
Defn: A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys.
Defn: Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands.
Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those ofgallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres).
Defn: A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey.
Defn: Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C.
Defn: Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidæ, found chiefly in Asia.
Defn: Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Certal and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera.
They are, however, in some points of essential structure more nearly allied to the Struthiones, although they doubtless fill the same place in the economy of Neotropical Nature as the true Gallinaceous birds in other lands.
The Gallinaceous birds of the Neotropical Region are about ninety in number, the greater part of these belonging to the Curassows, Cracidae, a family specially adapted for habitation in the extensive forests of the New World.
They do not seem hard enough to resist the triturating power of the gizzard of a gallinaceous bird, though they must resist that of some other birds; for the skin is as hard as ivory.
Do you know any gallinaceous bird in which the female has well developed spurs?
From what Mr. Wallace has observed of the habits of certain gallinaceousbirds in the East, he thinks that such slight differences are beneficial.
The tallegalla has a habit of scratching large holes in the ground while dusting itself, says Mr Wood, after the manner of gallinaceous birds; and these holes often serve to guide the egg-hunter towards the nest itself.
They, in fact, belonged to an order of birds closely allied to the gallinaceous tribe, and representing it on the continent of Australia as also in several of the Austro-Malayan islands, where the true gallinaceae do not exist.
It belongs to the gallinaceous order, and is only found amidst the forests of the New World, particularly in Honduras.
One moment it was the flight of a jacutinga--a handsome black gallinaceousbird with a white crest.
In some cases the barred plumage, which in gallinaceous birds is commonly the attribute of the hen, has been transferred to the cock, as in the cuckoo sub-breeds.
Gallinaceous birds of many genera likewise show an eminent capacity for breeding under captivity.
A fine sound, which in spite of many changes of climate and long centuries of domestication still preserves that forest-born character of wildness, which gives so great a charm to the language of many woodland gallinaceous birds.
Nest and Eggs=--The nest, like that of all the gallinaceous birds, is made on the ground and hidden away in some thick cluster of brush or beneath some log.
The grouse is a northern bird, extending into far colder regions than any other subfamily of the gallinaceous group.
A large Gallinaceous Bird, approaching in size the wild Turkey, and probably belonging to the same group, was a contemporary of the Oreodon and its associates during the formation of the Miocene lake deposits east of the Rocky Mountains.
They are of the gallinaceous genus, and known by the name of Curassao birds, the male of which is black, the female ferruginous.
As I have already stated, the remainder of the skeleton of this bird is characteristicallygallinaceous and need not detain us longer here.
There is no bird of the gallinaceous order that requires and destroys more insects than wild turkeys.
Among gallinaceous birds, where for one cock there are several hens, a severe struggle takes place between the competing cocks for as large a harem as possible.
It is thus that we can account for the spurs and the superior strength and size of the males in Gallinaceous birds, and also for the large canine tusks in the males of fruit-eating Apes.
The scarcity of poultry in this country partly arises from all gallinaceous birds requiring warmth and dryness to keep them in perfect health, while the climate of Great Britain is naturally moist and cold.
The warmest and driest soils," says Mowbray, "are the best adapted to the breeding and rearing of gallinaceous fowls, more particularly chickens.
As this book is written with the object of enabling persons staying at the various hill-stations to identify the commoner birds, I do not propose to describe the gallinaceous denizens of the higher ranges or the foothills.
Although the males average a little larger, the male and female of the same stock are usually nearer the same size than in gallinaceous birds.
If there were no fowls, domestic ducks would probably be as numerous as fowls are now, for it is much easier to produce eggs and meat from ducks than from any known species of gallinaceous bird except the fowl.
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