GLOSSARY. 
Vulture hock. — Stift* projecting feathers at the hock-joint. 
Tiie feathers must be both stiff and projecting to be thus truly 
called, and condemned, as illustrated above. 
Wattles. — The red, depending structures at each side of the 
base of the beak, — chiefly developed in the male sex. 
Weh. — The web of a feather is the flat or plume portion, — 
the web of the feet, the flat skin between the toes, — of thf3 
wings, the triangular skin seen when the wings are extended. 
Wing-bars. — Any line of dark color across the middle of the 
wings, caused by the color or marking of the feathers known 
as tlie lower wing-coverts. 
Wing-hows. — The upper or shoulder part of the wings. 
Wing-points or Wing-butts. — The ends of the primaries. 
Wing -coverts. — The broad feathers covering the roots of the 
secondary quills. 
