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Definition of Alectorides

Alectorides
Alectorides Al`ec*tor"i*des, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a cock.] (Zo["o]l.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.

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-  1819–1820. Bowdler Sharpe, R (1894). Catalogue of the Fulicariae and Alectorides in the collection of the British Museum. London: Taylor and Francis....
- British Museum. Coraciae... (1892). Catalogue of the Fulicariae... and Alectorides... in the collection of the British Museum. (1894). Catalogue of the...
- (1894). "Catalogue of the Fulicariae (Rallidae and Heliornithidae) and Alectorides (Aramidae, Eurypygidae, Mesitidae, Rhinochetidae, Gruidae, Psophidae...