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Attagis is a genus of seedsnipe, a South American family of small gregarious waders which have adapted to a vegetarian diet.
These birds look superficially like partridges in structure and bill shape. They have short legs and long wings. Their 2-3 eggs are laid in a shallow scrape on the ground.
The genus was erected by the French ornithologists Isidore Saint-Hilaire and René Lesson in 1831 with the rufous-bellied seedsnipe (Attagis gayi) as the type species.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The name Attagis is the word used for a game bird in Ancient Greek texts. It probably referred to the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
SpeciesEdit
The genus contains two species:<ref name=ioc>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Species table
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These are the larger of the four seedsnipe species.
ReferencesEdit
- Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater Template:ISBN