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A beak flute an older form of the flute played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak and held like a flageolet...
Cere
The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey parrots and some other birds See Beak...
Birostrate
Having a double beak or two processes resembling beaks...
Potamian
A river tortoise one of a group of tortoises Potamites or Trionychoidea having a soft shell webbed feet and a sharp beak See Trionyx...
ivorybill
A large handsome black and white North American woodpecker Campephilus principalis having a large sharp ivory colored beak Its general color is glossy black with white secondaries and a white dorsal stripe The male has a large scarlet crest It is now rare and found only in the Gulf States and Cuba...
Kamichi
A curious South American bird Anhima or Palamedea cornuta often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry which it defends against birds of prey It has a long slender hornlike ornament on its head and two sharp spurs on each wing Although its beak feet and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese Anseres Called also horned screamer The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja See Chaja and Screamer...
Kingfisher
Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the family Alcedinidaelig Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by diving and seizing them with the beak others feed only upon reptiles insects etc About one hundred and fifty species are known They are found in nearly all parts of the world but are particularly abundant in the East Indies...
Latirostral
Having a broad beak...
Lunate
Crescent shaped resembling the crescent moon as a lunate leaf a lunate beak a lunated cross...
Mandible
The bone or principal bone of the lower jaw the inferior maxilla also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds...
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