Definition of Order raptores

1. Noun. Term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes.

Exact synonyms: Raptores
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Aves, Class Aves

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Raptores

order Protura
order Pseudomonadales
order Pseudoscorpiones
order Pseudoscorpionida
order Psilophytales
order Psilotales
order Psittaciformes
order Psocoptera
order Pterosauria
order Pulmonata
order Pycnogonida
order Radiolaria
order Rajiformes
order Ranales
order Ranunculales
order Raptores
order Rhamnales
order Rheiformes
order Rhoeadales
order Rhynchocephalia
order Rickettsiales
order Rodentia
order Rosales
order Rubiales
order Salicales
order Salientia
order Santalales
order Sapindales
order Saprolegniales
order Sarcosporidia

Literary usage of Order raptores

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"The back is olive- brown, the crown and sides of the throat are deep grayish bluc, throat black, line beneath the eye white. order raptores. BIRDS OF PREY. ..."

2. Ornithology by Geological Survey of California, James Graham Cooper (1870)
"order raptores. CHAR. Base of upper mandible with a soft skin or cere. Upper mandible compressed; its point curving down over that of the lower, ..."

3. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"Order RAPTORES. THIS Order, the members of which perform such important offices in the great scheme of nature, is but feebly represented in Australia as ..."

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