Gallinaceae

Gal´li`nace`ae


n. pl.1.(Zool.) Same as Gallinae.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The occasional habit of birds laying their eggs in other birds' nests, either of the same or of a distinct species, is not very uncommon with the Gallinaceae; and this perhaps explains the origin of a singular instinct in the allied group of ostriches.
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