The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . g thewinglet 0,) three] others (1,2,4) is furnished through-out its length with a range of elastie quills,which greatlyextend the surface that resists the air. The quills ad-hering to the hand are named primaries, and these are[almost] always ten in number f; those attached tothe fore-arm are called secondaries, but their numbervaries ; weaker feathers attached to the humerus arestyled scaputaries [tertiaries; the true scapulariesconstituting that separate ra
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . g thewinglet 0,) three] others (1,2,4) is furnished through-out its length with a range of elastie quills,which greatlyextend the surface that resists the air. The quills ad-hering to the hand are named primaries, and these are[almost] always ten in number f; those attached tothe fore-arm are called secondaries, but their numbervaries ; weaker feathers attached to the humerus arestyled scaputaries [tertiaries; the true scapulariesconstituting that separate range which grows overthe scapulars, or shoulder-blades] ; and the bonewhich represents the thumb J (o), is also furnishedwith what are designated bastard quills, [this memberbeing generally termed alula spuria, or winglet^. Alongthe base of the quills is a range [and successiveranges] of feathers named coverts [both on the outerand inner surfaces of the wing, which receive corre-sponding appellations to those of the quiU-feathers theyimpend, as primary coverts, &c., and are further distinguished as greater, lesser, Eind least^.. Q the instance of tlie PitTTOti; flight, aitbaii{;h the coraciibliug those of the Hawks}, tiitrl^ flattened, j ne of which are birtls of veryare always very stODt Cmuchttrcola is never strong, and i firat extremely minute analogicall) speaking, reduced to t A. on the remov. nting; nber Some Parroqnets, indeed, as those small ones popularlyd Love-birds [Agrapornii), have no urcula whatever; and itrthy of being noticed that the resuicted Toucans ^Rfinmphattoi)the clavicles separate and very short, forming small dagger-d appcodaecs, the use of which is uot ubtious.— the (•rebe ^enus, eleven: many of the singing birds have the muval of digits, that of the thumb is found to biably the first, the rudimentary finger above referred to is nodercd as analogous to the index finger of the human band : thb, however, being sometimes represented by a
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