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n. - Type genus of the frogmouths.

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  • Why, the lover of horses will take just as much pleasure in the good points of Podargus, as in those of Æthe,
  • Originally, the bird was misclassified as a subspecies of the Australian Marbled Frogmouth, Podargus ocellatus.
  • Captain Stewart speaks in the strongest terms of the gallantry and zeal of Captain Robilliard, of the Podargus;
  • I got another specimen of the rare New Guinea kite (Henicopernis longicauda), a large new goatsucker (Podargus superciliaris), and a most curious ground-pigeon of an...
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