. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 220 LOXG-WIXGED SWIXIMLHS â LONGIPENNES. pale iiearl-lilue, like the iimntte, but the live outer priniiiries marked with ileep uA\- },'niy, US foUows : the t'.rst tjuill * the outer web ash-j;ray to within thive iiichoti of the tip, nieas- ureil aloiijT the shaft, n'l 1 an inch farther along the eil>;e ; the inner web ha.^ a paler asii-gray stripe about .:i5 of an ineli wiile next the shaft, ami extemlinj; to within iTo inciies of the tip ; the remainder, also the terminal portio
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 220 LOXG-WIXGED SWIXIMLHS â LONGIPENNES. pale iiearl-lilue, like the iimntte, but the live outer priniiiries marked with ileep uA\- },'niy, US foUows : the t'.rst tjuill * the outer web ash-j;ray to within thive iiichoti of the tip, nieas- ureil aloiijT the shaft, n'l 1 an inch farther along the eil>;e ; the inner web ha.^ a paler asii-gray stripe about .:i5 of an ineli wiile next the shaft, ami extemlinj; to within iTo inciies of the tip ; the remainder, also the terminal portion of the outer web, lieing pure white. The seeond (|uill lia,- no ash-gray on the inner web, which is very pale pearl-blue basally, and changing very graduallv into pure white towaiil the euil; the outer web is pure white for the space of inches from tlu>. TMrna Kumlicni. â¦ip (measured along the shaft), whence begins an elongated space of ash-gnty, occupying the full width of the web for about \.-l't inches, then gradually narrowing towanl the edge, and linally disapjiearing at a jioint a little nuire than six iiu'hes from the tip of the tiuill. The third ([uill lias an abrujitly defined white tip about half an inch in extent, this being imniediately preceded by an ash-gray bar, more than half an inch wide, entirely across the inner web, and continent with the space of the same color on the outer web, which extends towanl the base of the feather for tlie distance of live iiudies from the tip, tiiough occupying the full width of the web for t)idy about two inches. T\\c fmuili quill is similarly marked, except that the ash-gray is fainter and less exteiideil, especially on the outer web, where it follows the shaft for only the width of the bar on the inner web, while along the inlge it reaches to a distnnco of less than inches from the tip ; anterior to these gray spaces both webs are pure white for aiwut inches, when this C(dor gradually changes to the prev
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