The Heliornithidae are a small family of tropical birds with webbed lobes on their feet like those of grebes and coots.

The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy of birds, based upon DNA-DNA hybridization, suggested that the Limpkin's closest relatives were the Heliornithidae finfoots, and Sibley and Monroe even placed the species in that family in 1990.

On the other hand, such a group would probably also include the Heliornithidae ( finfoots and Sungrebe ), an exclusively tropical group that is somewhat convergent with grebes, and usually united with the rails in the Ralli.

These include 14 species of large cranes, about 145 species of smaller crakes and rails, as well as a variety of families comprising one to three species, such as the Heliornithidae, the limpkin, or the trumpeters.

Rails ( Rallidae ), finfoots and sungrebe ( Heliornithidae ), adzebills ( Aptornithidae ), trumpeters ( Psophiidae ), limpkin ( Aramidae ), and cranes ( Gruidae ) compose the suborder Grues and are termed " core-Gruiformes " ( Fain et al.

" Family Heliornithidae ( Finfoots )" in del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., & Sargatal, J., eds.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

He was shown a warm welcome regardless, and spent the time in Winchester recuperating from his ailment, enjoying his family and arranging his private affairs which were, of course, run down.

Inside, as soon as Mr. Skopas had disclosed -- in a hoarse whisper -- the detective's errand, his family gathered in a huddle, forming a mass of dark flesh on and around a brocaded sofa which stood at one side of a baroque fireplace.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

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Further research in the meaning of crises as experienced by the consumers of traditional social casework services -- including attempts to develop a typology of family structures, crisis problems, reaction mechanisms, and differential treatment approaches -- and the establishment of new experimental programs are imperative social needs which should command the best efforts of caseworkers in collaboration with community planners.

For example, child welfare experience abounds with cases in which the parental request for substitute care is precipitated by a crisis event which is meaningfully linked with a fundamental unresolved problem of family relationships.

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Resolved that his wrongs and bereavements in Kansas, occasioned by the violence and brutality of those who were intent on the propagation of slavery in that territory, call for a charitable judgment upon his recent efforts in Virginia to undermine the despotism from which he had suffered, and commend his family to the special sympathy and aid of all who pity suffering and reverence justice.

later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

If you are not well acquainted with the area in which you wish to locate, or if you are not sure that you and your family will like and make a success of farming, usually you would do better to rent a place for a year or two before you buy.

In my view, there should be a school which offers significant vocational programs for boys within easy reach of every family in a city.

Both men knew it was in the Norberg family holdings, but to which of the cousins did it belong, Anta or Freya??

Every family of Riviera Presbyterian Church has been asked to read the Bible and pray together daily during National Christian Family Week and to undertake one project in which all members of the family participate.

The abacá plant belongs to the banana family, Musaceae ; it resembles the closely related wild seeded bananas, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana.

The language belongs to the Eskimo-Aleut language family and includes three dialect groupings: Eastern Aleut, spoken on the Eastern Aleutian, Shumagin, Fox and Pribilof islands ; Atkan, spoken on Atka and Bering islands ; and the now extinct Attuan dialect.

It belongs to the boules game family and is related to bocce and pétanque.

There are two major derivations of this segment, both presupposing that it belongs to the family of Indo-European languages: from ' cow ' and from ' warrior.

Brahui belongs, with Kurukh ( Oraon ) and Malto, to the northern subfamily of the Dravidian family of languages.

Like all stable distributions, the location-scale family to which the Cauchy distribution belongs is closed under linear transformations with real coefficients.

The largest taxonomic family, the Curculionidae ( the weevils or snout beetles ), also belongs to this order.

It belongs to the swing family of American vernacular dances that arose in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.

The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, when it took a different position over Christological theology from that of the Eastern Orthodox Church ( not to be confused with the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria ).

In 2006, Frederik Woudhuizen suggested that Etruscan belongs to the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family, specifically to Luwian.

It belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family.

In many cultures, the name of a person refers to the family to which he or she belongs.

Hausa belongs to the West Chadic languages subgroup of the Chadic languages group, which in turn is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

The name of the plant family Proteaceae as well as the genus Protea, both to which P. cynaroides belongs to, derive from the name of the Greek god Proteus, a deity that was able to change between many forms.

They speak Kipsigis as a mother tongue, which belongs to the Nilo-Saharan language family.

It belongs to the Nilo-Saharan family, with dialects of the language most similar to Nandi.

His family belongs to the Swedish-speaking minority ( 5. 5 % of Finland's population ).

Another recent interpretation, based on the frequencies of the syllabic signs and on complete palaeographic comparative studies, suggests that the Minoan Linear A language belongs to the Indo-Iranian family of Indo-European languages.

The Macedonian language belongs to the eastern group of the South Slavic branch of Slavic languages in the Indo-European language family.

The tribe belongs to the Chiwere division of the Siouan language family, together with the Iowa and Otoe.

MPLS belongs to the family of packet-switched networks.

Naraoiidae is a family, of extinct, soft-shelled trilobite-like arthropods, that belongs to the order Nectaspida.

This type of noun affixation is not very frequent in English, but quite common in languages which have the true grammatical gender, including most of the Indo-European family, to which English belongs.

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The breed belongs to the Spitz genetic family.