- ground-feeding
birds that
includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and
other landfowl.
Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are
important in
their ecosystems as seed...
- dictionary. Hen
commonly refers to a
female animal: a
female chicken,
other gallinaceous bird, any type of bird in general, or a lobster. It is also a
slang term...
- A comb is a
fleshy growth or
crest on the top of the head of some
gallinaceous birds, such as
domestic chickens. The
alternative name ****scomb (with several...
- a bird in the
pheasant family Phasianidae of the
order Galliformes,
gallinaceous birds. The
scientific name is the
Latin for "partridge", and like the...
-
gamebird in the
pheasant family, Phasianidae, of the
order Galliformes (
gallinaceous birds). It is
native to
southern Europe, and is
closely related and very...
- pheasant, and
rainbow pheasant, is a
gamebird of the
order Galliformes (
gallinaceous birds) and the
family Phasianidae (pheasants). The
genus name is from...
-
genus of
gallinaceous birds",
according to
lexicographer Noah
Webster (1806), and the
explorers often used it in that sense. "
Gallinaceous" then referred...
- Galliformes. They are
endemic to
Africa and rank
among the
oldest of the
gallinaceous birds. Phylogenetically, they
branched off from the core Galliformes...
-
suggested by T.H.
Huxley (1868).
Huxley studied the
distribution of
gallinaceous birds in the archipelago, and
noticed that
species in the Philippines...
-
Coxcomb (ornithology), a
fleshy growth on the top of the head of many
gallinaceous birds Coxcomb (plant) or Celosia, a
small genus of
edible and ornamental...
