QUILL, a term applied to the bare, hard, hollow tube of the feather of a bird, also to the large flight feathers or remiges, and especially to the strong feathers of the goose, swan, or crow used in the making of quill pens (see Feather and PEN). [Please select]
(rectrices and remiges ensheathed basally) (July 28), and [Female], 40886, ovary moderately active, 30. [Please select]
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The remiges remain sheathed, but the body feathers emerge from the tips of the sheaths. [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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Forming a vast expansion of the bony and fleshy framework are the quills, or flight-feathers, called collectively the "remiges." [Please select]
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Slightly elevated remiges and rectrices, still in the sheath, were visible on the ninth day. [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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The plumage is intense black, with the inner webs of the remiges at their base white, but the wing-band, which is over an inch in breadth, shows only when the bird flies. [Please select]
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