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Definition of Spurious wing

1. Noun. Tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurious Wing

Literary usage of Spurious wing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"All the upper surface brown; tail deepening into black near the extremity and tipped with white; spurious wing- feathers dark brown, margined with white on ..."

2. A History of British Birds by William YARRELL, Howard Saunders, Alfred Newton (1874)
"In the female, the colours generally are much paler, the white on the spurious wing is less conspicuous ; and the body beneath has less of red and more of ..."

3. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1847)
"... forehead and lores deep black; stripe above and a small pateh below the eye white; spurious wing-feathers black, margined on their inner webs with white ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"In the metacarpus are implanted three small stiff feathers, called the spurious wing, ala spuria, whose use is not apparent. The accompanying wood-cut may ..."

5. American Ornithology: Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Robert Jameson, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington (1831)
"... entirely dusky brown, somewhat darker on the spurious wing, all the feathers, ... tie primaries are whitish at the origin beneath the spurious wing; ..."

6. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York by New York Academy of Sciences (1862)
"... tail olive brown; wing coverts of the same color as the back, each feather having a spot at the end of fulvous yellow ; spurious wing black with a pale ..."

7. American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine (1832)
"... the lining of the shoulder is plain dusky, as well as the spurious wing and the primaries, each feather of the spurious wing having about five large ..."

8. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1847)
"... forehead and lores deep black; stripe above and a small patch below the eye white; spurious wing-feathers black, margined on their inner webs with white ..."

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