GLOSSARY. Sri 



Glabrous — Smooth. 



Gonys — The middle line of the lower mandible. 



Gorget — Throat patch of peculiar feathers. 



Graduated — Said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are 



regularly shorter. 

 Granulate — Rough with small prominences. 

 Gular — Pertaining to the gula, or upper fore-neck. 

 Guttate — With rounded, drop-shaped spots. 

 Hallux— The great toe — in birds, the hind toe. 

 Ilelf/ht — Vertical diameter — practically the same as depth. 

 Ileterocercal — Said of the tail of a fish, when unequal — the back- 

 bone evidently running into the upper lobe. 

 Hirsute — With shaggy hairs. 

 Homocerml — Said of the tail of a fish when not evidently unequal ; 



the back-bone apparently stopping at the middle of the base 



of the caudal fin. 

 Humerus — Bone of the upper arm. 

 Hyoid — Pertaining to the tongue. 

 Hypognanious — Having the lower mandible longer than the upper, 



as in the Black Skimmer. 

 Imhricate — Overlapping, like shingles on a roof. 

 Imperforate — Not pierced through. 

 Inarticulate — Not jointed. 

 Incisors — The front or cutting teeth. 

 Interfemoral membrane — The membrane connecting the posterior 



limbs of a bat. 

 Intermaxillaries— The bones between the superior maxillaries, 



forming the middle of the front part of the upper jaw, in 



fishes : the premaxillaries. 

 Jugular— Fertammg to the lower throat— said of the ventral fins, 



wdien placed in advance of the attachment of the pectorals. 

 Keeled — See Carinate. 



Labials — Plates forming the lip of a serpent. 

 Lamelke — Plate-like processes inside of the bill of a duck. 

 Lamellate — Said of a bill provided with lamellae, as in a duck. 

 Lateral — To or towards the side. 

 Lateral line — A series of muciferous tubes forming a raised line 



along the sides of a fish. 

 Laterally — Sidewise. 

 Lobate — Furnished with membranous flaps — said of the toes of birds. 



