Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Scansores"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scansores \Scan*so"res\, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. scandere, scansum,
to climb.] (Zo["o]l.)
An artifical group of birds formerly regarded as an order.
They are distributed among several orders by modern
ornithologists.
Note: The toes are in pairs, two before and two behind, by
which they are enabled to cling to, and climb upon,
trees, as the woodpeckers, parrots, cuckoos, and
trogons. See Illust. under {Aves}.
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