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Alcie

ALCIE.

Web-footed sea-birds ; secondaries and axillaries short ; tail short and rounded, wedge-shaped ; hind toe absent or rudimentary ; feet set far back ; powerful swimmers and divers ; feed on fish, molluscs, crustaceans, mostly obtained by diving.