78 
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 
Fa/conidce, Columbidoz, etc. (Subfamilies are distinguished by the 
termination ince.) 
Fas'cia (L.), n. A band or broad bar of color. 
Fas'ciated (h. fascia' tus), a. Banded or broadly barred. 
Fas'cicle (L. fasci'culus) , n. A bundle. 
Fas cicled, ) fascicula'tus), a. Bundled. 
Fascic'ulate, ) 
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 leg.) 
Fe'mur (L.), n. The thigh ; the thigh-bone. 
Fe'ral (L. fe'rus), a. Wild, or undomesticated. The wild Jungle Fowl 
(Gallus ferrugineus) is the feral stock of the domestic fowl. 
Ferrugin'eous, { f erru 9 in ' e us), «• °r a. Rust-red, or the color of 
Ferruginous ') i*°n-rust. (Medium tint of burnt sienna.) (Plate IV. 
' t fig- 10.) 
Fibrilla (L. ; pi. fibril' ke), n. A small fibre. 
Firament (L. fit amen' turn), n. A slender or thread-like fibre. 
Filamentous (L.filamento'sus), ) & Thread _ like . 
Firiform (L. filiform' 'is), ) 
Filopluma'ceous (L. filopluma'ceus), a. Having the structure of a 
filoplume. 
Firoplume (L. fUoplu'ma) , n. A thread-like feather. 
Fimbriated (L. fimbria'tus), a. Fringed. 
Fissipal'mate (L. fssipahna'tus), a. With half -webbed feet, the free 
portion of the toes lobed, as a Grebe's foot. 
Fis'siped [L.Jis'sipes), a. Having cleft toes. (Opposite of palmiped.) 
Fissiros'tral (L.fissiros'tris), a. Having the mouth cleft far back of the 
base of the bill, as in the Goatsuckers, Swifts, etc. ; pertaining to the 
Fissirostres. 
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. 
Flame Red ( fl am ' meus > l Y neus )> n - ^ ver y mtense orange-red 
Flame Scarlet ) color, intermediate between scarlet and saturn-red. 
'( ( Rose carthame -J- cadmium-orange.) (PI. VII. fig. 14.) 
Flam'mulated (L.flammula'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.) 
