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New World vulture Coragyps common buzzard Buteo Old World vulture Torgos hook - billed kite Chondrohierax falcon Falco CLASSIFICATION No entirely satisfactory system of classification of the order Falconiformes has been agreed upon ...
New World vulture Coragyps common buzzard Buteo Old World vulture Torgos hook - billed kite Chondrohierax falcon Falco CLASSIFICATION No entirely satisfactory system of classification of the order Falconiformes has been agreed upon ...
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... World , modified as necessary in the light of modern knowledge . The main divergent view has been that of E. Stresemann , which was based largely on the sequence of wing molt and departed strongly from the order of Peters and from Brown ...
... World , modified as necessary in the light of modern knowledge . The main divergent view has been that of E. Stresemann , which was based largely on the sequence of wing molt and departed strongly from the order of Peters and from Brown ...
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... world champions is Khaosai Galaxy , who reigned as world bantamweight champion from 1984 through 1991 . Western boxing was introduced to China in the 1930s but was banned by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1959 on grounds that it was too ...
... world champions is Khaosai Galaxy , who reigned as world bantamweight champion from 1984 through 1991 . Western boxing was introduced to China in the 1930s but was banned by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1959 on grounds that it was too ...
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