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hoactzin's Usage Examples:

de Castelnau's Expedition dans les parties centrales de l'Amerique du Sud some important memoirs describing the anatomy of the hoactzin and certain other birds of doubtful or anomal ous position, published some remarks on the characters which could be drawn from the sternum of birds (Ann.

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Almost simultaneously with this he expounded more particularly before the Zoological Society, in whose Proceedings (1868, pp. 2 94-3 1 9) his results were soon after published, the groups of which he believed the Alectoromorphae to be composed and the relations to them of some outlying forms usually regarded as Gallinaceous, the Turnicidae and Pteroclidae, as well as the singular hoactzin, for all three of which he had to institute new groups - the last forming the sole representative of his Heteromorphae.

The hoactzin, Opisthocomus, feeds to a great extent upon the leaves of the aroid Montrichardia or Caladium arborescens.

hoactzin's Meaning':

crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings