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Title: A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology ..
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Macgillivray, William, 1796-1852
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, Printed for Scott, Webster, and Geary
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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pochondrial or lateral. In the tail are distinguished the tail-feathers, or tail-quills,31; and the upper and lower tail-coverts, the latter marked 32.
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Fig. 34. The Kestrel. The wings are the anterior extremities, in which are distin-guished the different parts already pointed out in speaking ofthe skeleton; the humerus, cubitus, and hand or pinion.Hence the quills, or large feathers, are divided into humeral,usually termed tertiary by ornithologists, who begin to countat the wrong end, 83 ; cubital, or secondary, 34, and Fig. 29, 90 INTRODUCTION. a., and digital or primary, 35, and Fig. 29, b. Those onthe first finger, 35, are named akilar. The series of largefeathers immediately covering the quills is composed of thelarger coverts, which are also named humeral, cubital or secon-dary, 36, and digital or primary, 37. The other feathers ofthe wing are named the smaller wing-coverts. The lower sur-face of the wing is similarly feathered. In the posterior extremities, or legs, are distinguished thefemoral region or thigh, generally concealed ; the leg properlyso called, or the tibia, 38, generally feathered, sometimes barefor a gieater

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