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Definition of Rectrices
1. rectrix [n] - See also: rectrix
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectrices
Literary usage of Rectrices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1892)
"Some species have the outer rectrices extremely elongated, others the central
and lateral rectrices moderately elongated, others, again, ..."
2. Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland by Hugh Edwin Strickland, William Jardine (1858)
"In Vidua the four external rectrices on each aide are nearly equal and of ...
said to have only two rectrices elongate*, may probably be also referred to ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1899)
"T;iil slaty, central feathers mottled, and lateral more or less edged with gr.-n-
Uh brown. Central rectrices tipped with same. ..."
4. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"Color, entirely white, except a narrow black orbital ring and brownish shafts to
primaries and (sometimes) rectrices. Range.—Pacific, Indian, and southern ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"Cauda longior, et rectrices mediae ... rectrices medite latae in apices ipsas.
a. rectrices mediae ..."
6. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1896)
"Total length about 19 inches, wing 11-5 ; tail, central rectrices 5-2, lateral
rectrices 4; bill 1'7, tarsus 1-5, middle and outer toes 1-95, inner toe 1-65 ..."
7. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"A small, definite number of rectrices may be observed to be in inverse ratio to
... Among Cormorants the number of rectrices seems to be scarcely generic ..."
8. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"Swimmers again, furnish birds with no rectrices, the whole grebe family ...
So rectrices run among birds from none to over thirty. The typical § 70. ..."
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