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Thus we can understand and in no other way as it seems to me the present condition and origin of the ornaments on the wing-feathers of the Argus pheasant. Mr. Gould several years ago pointed out to me a humming-bird, the Urosticte benjamini, remarkable for the curious differences between the sexes.
An' ef she had o' once-t mentioned me to the Lord confidential ez a person fitten to commingle with the cherubim an' seraphim, 'stid of a pore lost sinner not fitten to bresh up their wing-feathers for 'em, I b'lieve I might o' give in. I don't wonder I 'ain't never had a call to enter the Kingdom on her ricommendation.
Its head and beak, however, were more like those of an eagle or vulture. It had well-developed wings, armed with spurs, and a very long tail, with the two middle feathers longer than the rest. Its general colour was bluish grey, with a white throat and breast, and a reddish tinge upon the wing-feathers. But, perhaps, the most remarkable thing about the bird was its "crest."
"Mine is a bird story too," said an observant-looking boy; "but the kindness was done by birds, instead of by people. Last week when a bill-poster was pasting up some advertisements on our barn, a sparrow perched on the edge of the bucket, and got his feet and the tips of his wing-feathers all covered with paste."
They went about to pluck out one of its wing-feathers, but could not win to do so, save by helping one another, for all the feathers were not full grown; after which they took what they could carry of the young bird's flesh and cutting the quill away from the feather-part, returned to the ship.
Pintail, drake, plumage of; pairing with a wild duck. Pintail Duck, pairing with a widgeon. Pipe-fish, filamentous; marsupial receptacles of the male. Pipits, moulting of the. Pipra, modified secondary wing-feathers of male. Pipra deliciosa. Pirates stridulus, stridulation of. Pitcairn island, half-breeds on. Pithecia leucocephala, sexual differences of colour in.
The various ornaments possessed by the males are certainly of the highest importance to them, for in some cases they have been acquired at the expense of greatly impeded powers of flight or of running. The "unwieldy size" of the secondary wing-feathers of the male Argus pheasant is said "almost entirely to deprive the bird of flight."
Part of secondary wing-feather of Argus pheasant, shewing two perfect ocelli, a and b. Portion of one of the secondary wing-feathers near to the body, shewing the so-called elliptic ornaments. The right-hand figure is given merely as a diagram for the sake of the letters of reference. A, B, C, D, etc. Rows of spots running down to and forming the elliptic ornaments. b.
"Maybe he understood you," said Dodo. "I'd believe most anything about birds." The Yellow Warbler Length about five inches. Upper parts rich olive-yellow, brightest on the rump and crown, but dark brown on wings and tail, with the inside half of each tail-feather yellow, and some yellow edgings on the wing-feathers. Under parts bright yellow, in the male streaked with rich brownish-red.
The other one stayed on the ground and jigged about all the time. I would have liked to watch longer, but we had to find the colt, you know." "Now write your tables," said the Doctor, "for it is nearly dinner-time." Bob White. Length ten inches. Upper parts mixed reddish-brown, buff, gray, and black, with a white line over the eye and a row of buff streaks on the inside wing-feathers.
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