. A dictionary of birds . Feather of Nestling (Nycticorax). Magnified. 1. Sh. Horny sheath, not wholly shed, enclosing the base of eleven rami. Natural size. 2. Single ramus of the same, supported by a ramus of the Teleoptile. very naked because each of its long feathers has a bristle-likeappearance, being still enclosed in its sheath. When this is shedthe feather spreads out in form of a brush, composed of about sevenlong and thin uniform branches, beset with very few lateral rays,and all springing without any rhachis from a short cylindricalportion, representing the calamus, which passes int
. A dictionary of birds . Feather of Nestling (Nycticorax). Magnified. 1. Sh. Horny sheath, not wholly shed, enclosing the base of eleven rami. Natural size. 2. Single ramus of the same, supported by a ramus of the Teleoptile. very naked because each of its long feathers has a bristle-likeappearance, being still enclosed in its sheath. When this is shedthe feather spreads out in form of a brush, composed of about sevenlong and thin uniform branches, beset with very few lateral rays,and all springing without any rhachis from a short cylindricalportion, representing the calamus, which passes into the tips of theas yet hardly begun Teleoptile. (2) In Ciconia, Coli/mbus, Nycticorax, Plmnicopterns,t\\(i Sjiheniscidx,and in Sxda, the Neossoptile consists of a very short calamus,whence spring about a dozen long and delicate rami, each of which FEA THERS 245 is beset with two series of numerous radii, forming a fluffy plumagewhich is still more characteristic of the young in AccijLntres, Fasseres,Isittaci, and Striges
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