Crossword-Solution: RASORES 7 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

This gives for its five orders,—_incessores_, (perching birds,) _raptores_, (birds of prey,) _natatores_, (swimming birds,) _grallatores_, (waders,) _rasores_, (scrapers.) In these orders our naturalists discerned distinct organic characters, of different degrees of perfectness, the first being the most perfect with regard to the general character of the class, and therefore the best representative of that class; whence it was called the _typical_ order.

The third (rasores) are distinguished by strong feet, for walking or running on the ground, and for scraping in it for their food; also by wings designed to scarcely raise them off the earth and, farther, by a general domesticity of character and usefulness to man.

Finally, the _scansores_ resemble the rasores in their superior intelligence and docility, and in their having strong limbs and a bill entire at the tip.

Again, that the race of birds called in Latin 'Rasores' _do_, in the search for their food, usually scratch, and kick out their legs behind, living for the most part in gravelly or littery places, of which the hidden treasures are only to be discovered in that manner, seems to me no supremely interesting custom of the animal's life, but only a _manner_ of its household, or threshold, economy.

After it has learned to fly, it is still very helpless and baby-like, and very different from the active, bright-eyed, independent little chick of the barn-yard; and, indeed, the young of all the _Rasores_, or scratching birds, such as the hen, the quail, the partridge, the pheasant and the turkey.