. The birds of New England and adjacent states : containing descriptions of the birds of New England ... together with a history of their ; with illustrations of many species of the birds, and accurate figures of their eggs . A represents the primary quills, usually called primaries. B represents the secondary quills, usually called secondaries. C spurious Tsdng. D wing coverts. E tertiary quills, usually called tertiaries. F represents the throat. G is the upper part of the throat, called the jugulum. H is the bill or beak: this is divided into two parts, called the upper and lowe
. The birds of New England and adjacent states : containing descriptions of the birds of New England ... together with a history of their ; with illustrations of many species of the birds, and accurate figures of their eggs . A represents the primary quills, usually called primaries. B represents the secondary quills, usually called secondaries. C spurious Tsdng. D wing coverts. E tertiary quills, usually called tertiaries. F represents the throat. G is the upper part of the throat, called the jugulum. H is the bill or beak: this is divided into two parts, called the upper and lower is the frons, or forehead: feathers at this point are called frontal is the crown: feathers here are called coronal feathers, and represents the scapular feathers. L is the back: feathers here are sometimes called represents the tarsus: called shank or leg is the is the rump. P shows the upper tail indicates the position of the lower tail â ^<i:-:c INTRODUCTION. R shows on the bill the culmen, or crown, of the upper is the naked skin at the base of the bill, called the shows the position of the lores between the eye and indicates the gape, the angle at the junction of the upper and lower mandibles: the feathers in this locality are called is the commissure, or the folding edges of the mandibles. Ill addition to these parts, there are the flanks or sidesof the bird; the pectus, or breast; the flexure, or bend ofthe wing; the iris, or irides, the colored circle which sur-rounds the pupil of the eye ; and the toes and tibia: theformer are sometimes palmated, as with the swimmers, ornatatores ; and the latter is that portion next above thetarsus on the leg. sy:nopsis CHARACTERISTICS OF NORTH-AMERICAN BIRDS. THE following synopsis of the orders of birds, takenpartly from Keyserling and Blasius, will serve to illus-trate the characteristics of the highe
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