Although not strong fliers, they are one of the few tree-roosting gallinaceous species.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Chicken] Reference

The gallinaceous birds include the large blue grouse of the coast, replaced in the Rocky Mountains by the dusky grouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The Partridge, and other gallinaceous birds, fly in a similar manner; but, on account of their larger size, their motions are less attractive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference

Found a couple old, old bones (whether decades or a century, I do not know) and the leg and foot of a gallinaceous bird (a hun?) from the past winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

The eggs of many gallinaceous birds, that make their nests carelessly in the grass, are of a pale and less decided green, such as those of the partridge and pheasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829] Reference

Among the most striking are the gallinaceous birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

But there is nothing gallinaceous about my Georgiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aftermath] Reference

The number of gallinaceous birds is extremely limited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

The Himalayas are the home of many species of gallinaceous birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

The wings have a general resemblance to those of gallinaceous birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquity of Man] Reference

Inside the nine-and-seventy cackled; outside similar gallinaceous sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Younger Set] Reference

Do you know any gallinaceous bird in which the female has well developed spurs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

It belongs to the gallinaceous order, and is only found amidst the forests of the New.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English] Reference

In less time than it takes to tell it, that gallinaceous army had passed out of sight, forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodcraft] Reference

That is a peculiarity of the gallinaceous tribe of birds alone, to which then these must belong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swiss Family Robinson] Reference

The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine and passerine tribes resort to the fruit - bearing trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings in South America] Reference

This is one of the gallinaceous birds, the principal genera of which are Pheasants, Turkeys, Peacocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

The turkey is the largest, and if not the finest, at least the most highly flavored of the gallinaceous family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

In wild gallinaceous species the relative length and number of the main wing and tail-feathers are extremely constant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

These may be taken for the same purpose that some birds, especially of the gallinaceous order, swallow bits of gravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference

The practice of rearing parrots, birds of a family so different from the gallinaceous tribes, was remarked by Columbus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Two pigeons and four species of quail are all the rasorial birds in the island; the true gallinaceous birds being wholly wanting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Tasmania, Volume I] Reference

The consequence is almost as great diversity of character within gallinaceous limits as exists in the families that care for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature's Serial Story] Reference

He did not succeed in rearing them to maturity; but, as he remarks, "no wild gallinaceous bird thrives well at first on hard grain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

Briefly and roughly to describe it: in size it is like a swan, in shape like a lapwing, only with a powerful curved gallinaceous beak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference

Listlessly a of translunary annamite kremlin pungently, he may be the disreputably decreased gallinaceous man i steelworks seen in imperviousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [POWET.TV] Reference

In the place where we had landed our instruments, the banks being steep, we saw new proofs of the indolence of the gallinaceous birds of the tropics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Curiously enough it does not possess any gizzard, such as most gallinaceous birds have, but has in its place a membranous stomach, suited to the digestion of its peculiar food.    From Wordnik.com.  [III. The Grouse of the Northern Cattle Plains] Reference