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GLOSSARY OP TECHNICAL TERMS 



USED IN DESCRIBING THE BIRDS. 



Alula. Little wing, the bastard wing composed of the feathers, that are set on 



the so-called thumb. 



Auriculars. The straight hair like feathers overlying the ears. 

 Axillars. Feathers growing from the armpit. 

 Coverts. The small feathers under or over the tail or wings. 

 Crissum. The under tail coverts taken together. 

 Cinereous. Of an ashy colour. 

 Corrugated. Wrinkled. 

 Cordate. Heart shaped^ 

 Crescentic. Moon shaped. 



Commissure. The line of junction of the mandibles when closed. 

 Culmen. The highest arch of the upper mandible. 

 Dorsal. Belonging to the back. 

 Fulvous. Of a brownish yellow colour. 

 Fuliginous. Dark brown. 

 Falcate. Sickle shaped. 



Glaucous. A dull green passing into blue sea green. 

 Gallinaceous. Having the nature of a domestic fowl. 

 Intertomial. Between the cutting edges of the bill. 

 Interscapulars. The feathers between the shoulders. 

 Iris. The circular muscular curtain hanging perpendicularly in the eye between 



the aqueous and vitreous humors and having in it a circular opening the 



pupil. 



-Jugulum. The throat. 

 Lores. Space between the eye and the bill. 

 Loral. Belonging to the lores. 

 Lanceolate. Lance shaped. 

 Mandible. The jaw. 

 Nuchal. Belonging to the neck or nape. 

 Nape. Back of the neck. 

 Nasal. Belonging to the nose. 

 Ochraceous. Colour of yellow ochre. 

 Orbital. Pertaining to the eye socket. 

 Occiput, Back of the head, 



Primaries. The nine or ten stiff feathers which form the tip of the wing. 

 Pileum. The cap or top of the head. 

 Plumbeous. Lead colour. 

 Pectinations. Comb-like toothing. 



Pectoral. Belonging to the breast. 

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