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Order

The division in taxonomy which lies between the class and the family. The scientific name of an order always ends in '-iformes', for example the order Piciformes (woodpeckers).

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From Peter Weaver's Birdwatcher's Dictionary
Copyright © 1981 by Peter Weaver


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