10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PTERYLOGRAPHIC»
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Pterylography: Translated from the German. Ed. by Ph. Lutley ...
I. Diurnal Rapacious Birds — Accipitrina Diurna. ost important pterylographic
characters of these consist in the presence of an aftershaft Dur- feathers, which is
wanting only in Cathartes and Pandion ; in the occurrence of rs among the ...
Christian Ludwig Nitzsch, 1867
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Nitzsch's Pterylography
This was completed under the title of ' Pterylographic Avium pars prior,' and- was
sent to several of his friends in single copies. Nitzsch had already, no doubt,
formed the plan of the whole work, and apparently had so arranged it that a
second ...
Christian Ludwig Nitzsch, William Sweetland Dallas, Philip Lutley Sclater, 1867
3
On the Classification of Birds: And on the Taxonomic Value ...
... described by the latter writer, who remarks that, “next to the Passerime and
Gallinaceaz, this group appears to present the smallest pterylographic
differences ” *, and that in the form of the tracts it closely approaches Psop/zia
and Grus.
Thomas Henry Huxley, 1807
4
Records of the Australian Museum
Members of the first group (crows, Old World jays and allies, that were grouped
on the basis of pterylographic pattern) gave similar index numbers: Pica (0.34),
Corvus ossifragus (0.28), Corvus brachyrhynchos (0.36) and Corvus corax (0.32).
... Liks that, " next to the PusseriniB and Galli- rs to present the smallest
pterylographic dif- i the form of the tracts it closely approaches rs cease above the
suffrago, though sometimes • small ; and the webs between the front toes
uccurviroslra.
Zoological Society of London, 1867
6
The Emu: Official Organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' ...
Lowe relies on a number of characters anatomical, osteological, and
pterylographic. For classification purposes I am inclined to value osteological
characters higher than anatomical and pterylographic, as they can be the better
delimited, and, ...
His pterylographic investigations confirmed the main conclusions of Nitzseh (
1840) except that he found "numerous small but very real differences by which
not only genera but even species may be distinguished." He was critical of
Kaup's ...
As a proof of Mr. Rackliif's statement, the Drakes are now before me, and both are
indeed fine specimens; but one, a superb Drake, is deserving of more than a
passing notice, as it shows a pterylographic adornment, or modification of the
outer ...
9
1st -12th Annual Report of the United States Geological and ...
these birds, the writer inserts the following valuable quotations from Nitzsch, an
author who paid no little attention to the external characteristics of birds, more
particularly the feather tracts. . The chief pterylographic character of these, as of
the ...
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), 1883
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Congressional Series of United States Public Documents
these birds, the writer inserts the following valuable quotations from Nitzsch, an
author who paid no little attention to the external characteristics of birds, more
particularly the feather tracts. Tho chief pterylographic character of these, as of
the ...
