Here is not only a curious example of tenacity of memory, but it is the only instance of friendship Mrs F-has ever known to exist amongst gallinaceous fowl.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
In less time than it takes to tell it, that gallinaceous army had passed out of sight, forever.
"Woodcraft"
George W. Sears
In 1868, in the course of a memoir on the anatomy of the gallinaceous birds and their allies, he made a useful attempt, nearly the first of its kind, to correlate anatomical facts with geographical distribution.
"Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work"
P. Chalmers Mitchell