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The Plantain-Eaters may be diagnosed as follows :— 
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The oil-gland may be (a) absent or present; and when present may be either (6) sur- 
rounded by a tuft of feathers, or (c) nude. This character, to which Garrod and Forbes 
attached great importance, is fairly constant, but breaks down in the following suborders :— 
Scansores, Columb, Psittaci, Halcyones, Coraciz, Grall, Fulicariz, and Galline. 
