. Birds: the elements of ornithology ; with 174 illustrations whereof 140 are original drawings. Birds; Birds. Fig. OP A Bird, to illustrate the terminology of the plumage and limbs {after Oates). Forehead. 2. Crown or vertex. 3. Nape. Between this and 2 is the hind-head, or occiput. 4. Lore (space in front of the eye). 5. Super- cilium. (The space around the eye is the "orbital " or "circumocular region " and is subdivided into supra-orbital, infra-orbital, ante-orbital, and post-orbital). 6. Cheek or gena ; its lower margin is the malar region. 7. Auricula
. Birds: the elements of ornithology ; with 174 illustrations whereof 140 are original drawings. Birds; Birds. Fig. OP A Bird, to illustrate the terminology of the plumage and limbs {after Oates). Forehead. 2. Crown or vertex. 3. Nape. Between this and 2 is the hind-head, or occiput. 4. Lore (space in front of the eye). 5. Super- cilium. (The space around the eye is the "orbital " or "circumocular region " and is subdivided into supra-orbital, infra-orbital, ante-orbital, and post-orbital). 6. Cheek or gena ; its lower margin is the malar region. 7. Auriculars or ear-coverts. 8. Upper mandible or maxilla. 9. Lower, or true, mandible. 10. Culmen, or upper profile of maxilla. 11. Eictus, or commissural line of junction(or gape) of the two mandibles. The extreme posterior end of the gape is the corner or angle of the mouth, or commissural point. The space between this and the base of the horny bill is the rictus. 12. Ricl al bristles or vibrissaj. 13. Chin or mentum. 14. The throat—divisible into "upper throat" (gula) and "lower throat" (jugulum), which extends down to 15, where begins the prepectus, or fore-neck, after which comes the breast or pectus—that is the part which covers the breast-bone or sternum. 16. Abdomen. (The breast and abdomen together are called " gas- ;) 17. Back—the upper part of which is the interscapular region. 18. Rump or uropygium. 19. Scapulars. 20. Primaries (the outermost 9 or 10 quills of the wing .springing from the pinion or bones of the hand). 21. Secondai-ies (wing-quills springing from the lower arm-bones—radius and ulna). 22. Tertiaries (springing from the upper arm-bone or humerus).—The primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries together constitute the " ; 23. Lesser wing-coverts. 24. Median wing-coverts. 25. Greater wing-coverts. 26. Primary wing-coverts. 27. Winglet or bastard wing or alula (feathers spring- ing from the thumb). 28.
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