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Tribe

A division used in taxonomy and standing between the sub-family and the genus. The scientific name of a tribe ends in '-ini'. The wildfowl family (Anatidae) has ten tribes, representatives of six of which occur naturally in the British Isles, with feral members of two others also being present.

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From Peter Weaver's Birdwatcher's Dictionary
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