10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PTERYLOSIS»
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1
Ornithology in Laboratory and Field
Clench, M.H. 1970 Variability in body pterylosis, with special reference to the
genus Passer. Auk 87:650—691. Compton, L.V. 1938 The pterylosis of the
Falconiformes with special attention to the taxonomic position of the Osprey. Univ
. Calif.
Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr.,
1985
2
Biology of the Ubiquitous House Sparrow : From Genes to ...
In a detailed study of the pterylosis of the genus Passer (with special emphasis
on the house sparrow), Clench (1970) identified nine feather tracts: dorsal,
scapulohumeral, femoral, ventral, lateral neck, capital, alar, crural, and caudal.
Ted R. Anderson Professor of Biology McKendree College in Illinois (Emeritus),
2006
3
Bird Feathers: A Guide to North American Species
Pterylosis. Although birds appear to be evenly feathered, their feathers are
distributed in distinct feather tracts, or pterylae. A bird with its all of its feathers
sheared close to the base of the quill would show symmetrical patterns of tracts
that ...
Shannon David Scott, Casey McFarland,
2010
4
Avian Anatomy Integument
Pterylosis is the arrangement of feathers within tracts over the body of the bird.
Most descriptions of pterylosis deal with the location of the feather follicles.
Ptilosis is the total plumage associated with these follicles. Generally, there has
not ...
Alfred Martin Lucas, Peter Rich Stettenheim,
1972
5
Structural modifications in the Hawaiian goose (Nesochen ...
Hawks having the accipitrid type of pterylosis were found in the subfamilies
Elaninae, Perninae, Milvinae, Aceipitrinae, Buteoninae, Aegypiinae, Circinae,
and Circaetinae. All these are currently considered subfamilies of the Accipitridae
.
Alden Holmes Miller,
1937
6
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club
Natal pterylosis of Premnoplex brunnescens, Thripadectes virgaticeps and
Synallaxis camlet (Furnariidae). Bull. Brit. Orn. CI. 99: 12-15. Collins, C. T. &
McDiniel, K. M. 1989. The natal pterylosis of closed-nest building tyrant
flycatchers (Aves: ...
British Ornithologists' Club,
1996
7
Records of the Australian Museum
M.L. Mormon Laboratoria voor Morfologie & Systematiek, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-
9000 Gent, Belgium Abstract. The wing and tail pterylosis of Atrichornis clamosus
and Menura novaehollandiae were studied. On comparing the wing pterylosis, ...
8
Proceedings of the fourth Pan-African ornithological congress
In Vidua too the spinal pterylosis distinguishes the subgenera Hypochera, Vidua
and Steganura. The ventral tract is nearly useless in distinguishing the different
genera. Since the general Passer paper by Heimerdinger ( 1970) our knowledge
...
D. N. Johnson, Southern African Ornithological Society,
1980
9
Studies in Trinidad and Tobago ornithology honouring Richard ...
Floyd E. Hayes, Stanley A. Temple, University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine
, Trinidad and Tobago). FK5. 1. Natal pterylosis of Certhiaxis cinnamomea. Each
dot represents a single neossoptile. Pattern shown is the average number of ...
Floyd E. Hayes, Stanley A. Temple, University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago),
2002
10
On the Classification of Birds: And on the Taxonomic Value ...
Nitzsch (l. c.) remarks that the pterylosis of the first-named family “approaches
very closely to that of the Scolopacinae, and. can hardly be distinguished
therefrom by any character ;” and the same may be said of the osteological and
other ...
Thomas Henry Huxley,
1807
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