The tail, in most species very short, has in others the middle feathers much elongated, and in one of the outer rectrices are attenuated and produced into threads. [Please select]
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FAMILY GRUIDÆ Nasal depression more than half as long as maxilla; rectrices twelve. [Please select]
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_Page 234_ FAMILY OTIDIDÆ (BUSTARDS) Bill flattened and obtuse; no hind toe; tarsi unarmed; wings very short; rectrices sixteen to twenty. [Please select]
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The tail length, however, is measured from the _base_ of the uropygium to the tip of the longest pair of rectrices. [Please select]
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Many specimens show yellow remiges and rectrices, and are perhaps hybrids with the species _auratus_. [Please select]
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The rectrices of all three species of waxwings seldom possess the wax tips, unless the secondaries have the maximum number of tips. [Please select]
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The rectrices were partly ensheathed and the feather count extensively downy. [Please select]
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, little fat, molting--1st through 6th primaries and middle pair of rectrices are new (August 10), all from 13 km. [Please select]
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Our specimen closely resembles eight specimens from Coahuila, México, in general coloration and, especially, in the pattern of colors on the outer rectrices. [Please select]
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It is a very pretty bird; the upper plumage is grey tinged with rufous, the throat pure dark grey, breast and belly rufous, wing-coverts light silvery grey, remiges and rectrices dark. [Please select]
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