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Definition of Tertials
1. tertial [n] - See also: tertial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tertials
Literary usage of Tertials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"rally a greater resemblance to familiar modern tertials (Lat. ... tertials are
the large feathers which take their rise from the proximate extremity of the ..."
2. Supplement to the Ornithological Dictionary, Or Synopsis of British Birds.by George Montagu by George Montagu (1813)
"-neck, which is of a pale clay-colour: the tertials and tail- feathers edged with
yellowish-white. In another specimen further advanced towards maturity, ..."
3. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1858)
"tertials shorter than the secondaries. Tail forked, but the lateral feathers
shorter. ... tertials as long as the primaries. Tail forked ; feathers acute. ..."
4. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1907)
"... and scapulars more or less obscured by pale brownish gray margins or tips,
the greater wing-coverts and tertials edged with whitish or pale grayish; ..."
5. The Birds of Shetland: With Observations on Their Habits, Migration, and by Henry Linckmyer Saxby, Stephen H. Saxby (1874)
"In the closed wing the tertials are longer than the primaries, and the last
feathers of the tertiary coverts are longer than the tertials themselves. ..."
6. Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds by George Montagu, James Rennie (1831)
"The common gallinule, indeed, has not the whole of the primary quills concealed
by the tertials, as the ends of four or five may be seen beyond them when ..."
7. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"The first two tertials in each wing have the outer half black, thus suggesting
the black stripes on the tertials of the Pintail. ..."
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