. A dictionary of birds . CiNNYEis CHLOROPTGiA. Ventral and dorsal aspect. A R ACHNECHTHRAand CiNNYRIS OBScuRA. Dor-sal tract. that a very long series would be required to exhibit even theprincipal types observable in the whole Class. ^ PTILOP^DES, a name proposed in 1872 by Sundevall{Tentamen, p. 102) for his second division (agmen) of the Cla,ss Ares,being the Birds whose young are thickly covered with down beforetheir feathers grow: in 1873 changed (iojn. cit. p. 158) toDasypsides, to prevent confusion-with PsiLOP^DES. PTILOSIS, the learned word for Plumage. PUBIS (properly Os pubis) or PUB

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. A dictionary of birds . CiNNYEis CHLOROPTGiA. Ventral and dorsal aspect. A R ACHNECHTHRAand CiNNYRIS OBScuRA. Dor-sal tract. that a very long series would be required to exhibit even theprincipal types observable in the whole Class. ^ PTILOP^DES, a name proposed in 1872 by Sundevall{Tentamen, p. 102) for his second division (agmen) of the Cla,ss Ares,being the Birds whose young are thickly covered with down beforetheir feathers grow: in 1873 changed (iojn. cit. p. 158) toDasypsides, to prevent confusion-with PsiLOP^DES. PTILOSIS, the learned word for Plumage. PUBIS (properly Os pubis) or PUBIC Bones, the anterior,most ventral and slenderest of the three component parts of thePelvis. PUCKERIGE (possibly connected with the puca, a goblin ^ Since the time of Nitzsch additional descriptions of the Pterylosis of certaintiirds have appeared, but no special work on the subject, though it has by nomeans been exhausted, and such a work would be of considerable taxonomicutility if it were amply illustrated (littl

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