The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . s have varied with dilf erent writers, but it is nowgenerally considered to include the loons, (jrebes, andaul<s, and to exclude the peti^^uins. which, tliough pygop-odous, are otlierwise very different in important then consists of the families Cidi/inbidje, Podicipedid^,and Alddie. In consequence of tiie pot^itiun of the legs,these birds can hardly walk, anil wlien on land they as-sume a more or less nearly upright attitude. See cutsunder Aha


The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . s have varied with dilf erent writers, but it is nowgenerally considered to include the loons, (jrebes, andaul<s, and to exclude the peti^^uins. which, tliough pygop-odous, are otlierwise very different in important then consists of the families Cidi/inbidje, Podicipedid^,and Alddie. In consequence of tiie pot^itiun of the legs,these birds can hardly walk, anil wlien on land they as-sume a more or less nearly upright attitude. See cutsunder Aha, iirehe, and loon. Pygopodidae (pi-go-podi-de), n. pi. [NL., <rygiijwdtn + -idse.) An Australian family oferiglossate laoertiliaus, typified by the , alone representing the superfamilyIygopoihideii, ha\ing the frontal bone excludedfrom the orbit, the prefrontal and postfrontalbones being extended and contiguous. AlsoPygiipidie. Pygopodoidea (pigo-po-doide-a), [ < Iygiipodes + -iiideu.] A superfamily of eri-glossate lacertiliaus, represented by the familyJygiipodidee alone, having concavo-convex ver-.


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