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ORNITHOLOGISTS' COMPENDIUM. 



zoological nomenclature the name of a Family is taken from a typical 

 Genus the name of which is modified by the termination idee- as 

 talconda, Columbian, etc. (Subfamilies are distinguished by the 

 termination ince.) J 



Fas'cia (L.), n. A band or broad bar of color. 



Fas'ciated (L.fascia'tus), a. Banded or broadly barred. 



Fas'cicle (L. fasciculus) , n. A bundle. 



Fas'cicled, > /T . .. 7 , , 



Fasciculate, \ ( L -f asciculai us), a. Bundled. 



Fastig'iate (L.fastigia'tus), a. Bundled together like a sheaf 



Fau'na (L.), n The animal-life of a country. (Distinguished from the 



flora, or plant-life.) 

 Fawn-color, (L. cervi'nus ; cervin'eus), n. A light warm brown color 



( Burnt umber + white.) (Plate III. fig. 22. ) 

 Fem'oral (L.femora'lis), a. Pertaining to the thigh proper, or the inner 



segment of the leg. (To be carefully distinguished from tibial, which 



refers to the so-called "thigh," or middle segment of the lee ) 

 Fe mur (L.), n. The thigh ; the thigh-bone. 

 Fe'ral (L.fe'rus), a. Wild, or undomesticated. The wild Jungle Fowl 



(Gallusferruffineus) is the feral stock of the domestic fowl. 

 Ferrugin'eous, ( (L - f er ™gin'eus), n. or a. Rust-red, or the color of 

 Ferru'ginous, j iron-rust. (Medium tint of burnt sienna.) (Plate IV 



( fig. 10.) 

 Fibriria (L. ; pi. fbril'lce), n. A small fibre. 

 Filament (L.f 'amen 'turn), n. A slender or thread-like fibre 

 Filamentous (L.flamento'sus), } 

 Fil'iform (L.filiform'is), \ a ' Thread-like. 



Filopluma'ceous (L. filopluma'ceus), a. Having the structure of a 

 nloplume. 



Fil'oplume (L. fihplu'ma) , n. A thread-like feather. 



Fimbriated (L.fmbria'tus), a. Fringed. 



Fissipal'mate (L. fissipalma'lus), a. With half-webbed feet, the free 



portion of the toes lobed, as a Grebe's foot. 

 Fis'siped (L.fs'sipes), «. Having cleft toes. (Opposite of palmiped.) 

 Fissiros'tral (L.fssiros'tris), a. Having the mouth cleft far back of the 



bnse of the bill, as in the Goatsuckers, Swifts, etc.; pertaining to the 



r issnostres. 



Fissiros'tres (L.), n. An obsolete name of an artificial group of birds 

 with deeply cleft mouths, including the Goatsuckers, Swifts, and 

 other " fissirostral" families. 



(L. flam'meus; ifneus), n. A very intense orange-red 

 color, intermediate between scarlet and saturn-red. 

 (Rose carthame-f cadmium-orange.) (PI. VII. fig. 14 ) 

 Flam'mulated (L.flammida'tus), a. Pervaded with a reddish color. ' 

 Flanks (L. hypochon'dria), n. In descriptive Ornithology the most pos- 

 terior feathers of the sides. (Plate XI.) . 



Flame Red, 

 Flame Scarlet 



