. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 70 OENITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS, may be described in detail as under. I may mention that for conveni- ence I adopt Saunders's terms " mirror" and " wedge," tbe former signi- fying the white suba])ical spot, the hitter meaning the gray color on the webs from the base upwards. It is further to be remarked that the tips are very little worn. First jH-imary with the tip almost wholly white, a trace of the black crossbar only visible as a small spot near the edge of both webs j shaft. Fig. 4.—First three primaries of Lariis sch
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 70 OENITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS, may be described in detail as under. I may mention that for conveni- ence I adopt Saunders's terms " mirror" and " wedge," tbe former signi- fying the white suba])ical spot, the hitter meaning the gray color on the webs from the base upwards. It is further to be remarked that the tips are very little worn. First jH-imary with the tip almost wholly white, a trace of the black crossbar only visible as a small spot near the edge of both webs j shaft. Fig. 4.—First three primaries of Lariis schistisajuti. black in the black portion and in the white also ; a well-defined bluish slate-colored wedge in the inner web reaches near the tip by about twice the length of the white apex. The second primary has a small apical white spot, and the " mirror " is reduced to a rounded spot in the inner web close to the edge; the gray wedge of considerably Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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