Crossword-Solution: ALCIDAE
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ALCIDAE | anagram | ALCAIDE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALCIDAE (5)
This is the Auk, family _Alcidae_, and must not be confounded with the penguin of the southern hemisphere, although it is described by the early navigators of the Northern Atlantic under that appellation.
Huxley, and is usually supposed to occupy a place between the _Alcidae_ and _Podicipedidae_; but to which of these groups it is most closely related is undecided.
The HOLARCTIC REGION, comprising North America and the extratropical mass of land of the Old World, may from an ornithological point of view be characterized by the Colymbi, _Alcidae, Gallidae_ or Alectoropodous Galli, and the Oscines, which have here reached their highest development; while Ratitae, Tinami, Psittaci, and non-Oscine Passeres (with the exception of _Tyrannidae_ extending into North America and _Conurus carolinensis_) are absent.
Otherwise the coloration was similar in both, and there is satisfactory evidence that the gare-fowl's winter-plumage differed from that of the breeding-season just as is ordinarily the case in other members of the family _Alcidae_ to which it belongs.
This mystery is not peculiar to the guillemot, but is shared by all the _Alcidae_ that inhabit the Atlantic Ocean.