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LOBE. Space between eye and base of upper mandible. 



MALAR. Pertaining to cheek. 



MANDIBLES. Upper and lower jaws with their covering. 



MANUBRIUM. Process of the fore-border of sternum. 



MAXILLA. Lateral margin of upper mandible. 



NAPE. Upper part of neck behind. 



NUCHAL. Pertaining to region of neck. 



OCCIPUT. Hind-head. 



OCREATE. Having the tarsal envelope continuous ; booted. 



OPERCULUM. A lid. 



ORBITAL. Region of eye. 



OSCINES. Singers. 



PECTORAL. Breast region. 



PERVIOUS. Open. 



PHALANGES. Bones of digits of hand and foot. 



PILEUM. Whole top of head. 



PLANTA. Sides and back of tarsus. 



PLUMULES. Down feathers. 



PRIMARIES Main flight feathers growing on pinion or hand. 



RECTRICES. Tail quills. 



REMIGES. Quills of wing. 



RICTAL. Pertaining to gape. 



ROSTRUM. Bill. 



SCAPULARIES. Feathers on the shoulder-blades. 



SCHIZOGNATHOUS. The skull having maxillo - palatine processes of the 

 maxilla separated by a cleft, and the vomer long and pointed in 

 front, narrow behind. Example, common fowl. 



SCHIZORHINAL. Split nasal bone. 



SCUTELLATE. Having small plate-like surfaces. 



SECONDARIES. Flight feathers seated on the fore-arm (ulna). 



SEMI-PALMATED. Half -webbed. 



SHAFT. Main stem of feather. 



SPATULATE. Spoon-shaped. 



SPECULUM. Conspicuous bright spot. 



SPURIOUS WING. Bastard wing. 



STERNUM. Breastbone. 



S UBULATE. Awl-shaped. 



SULCUS. Furrow. 



SYNDACTYL. Joined toes in part of length. 



TARSUS. Lower part of leg. 



TERTIALS. Innermost secondaries growing upon humerus. 



THUMB. Pollex or outer digit of hand. 



TIBIO-TARSUS. Middle long bone of leg. 



TOMIUM. Cutting edge of bill. 



VOMER. A membrane bone of the skull in the median line ; sometimes in 

 paired halves, one on each side of the median line. 



ZYGODACTYL. Toes arranged in pairs, two in front and two behind. 



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