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Identifier: gameshorewaterbi00leme (find matches)
Title: Game, shore, and water birds of India
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Le Messurier, Augustus, 1837-1916
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Publisher: Calcutta : Thacker, Spink London : W. THacker
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Tail Feathers The Exo-Skeleton, ok Feathers. The lie mi yes, or Flight-Feathers. The feathers of a wing of a bird have a very definite arrangement. They consist of the large quill-feathers (Remiges, or flight-feathers) and the coverts (Tectrices). The Remiges are developed into the wing-membrane (ala membrana),and come into close and definite relation to the bones, forming twowell-marked groups:— (i.) The cubitals, or secondaries/ are attached to the ulna, and varygreatly in number in different groups of birds. (ii.) The metacarpo-digitals, or primaries/ are attached to the bonesof the nianus, and are typically eleven in number. Of these the meta-carpus bears six (the metacarpals), and the phalanges of the digitsbear five (the digitals), disposed as follows :—One (the addigital)lying upon the phalanx of digit iii., and inserted at the metacarpo-phalangeal articulation; two (the middigitals) inserted on the firstphalanx of digit ii.; and two (the predigitals ) inserted on the secon

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