Stifftail


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Stiff´tail`


n.1.The ruddy duck.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Microsatellite markers for two stifftail ducks: the white-headed duck, Oxyura leucocephala, and the ruddy duck, O.
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