10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOMIAL»
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Upper mandible with the culmen short and regularly very convex from base to tip,
which latter is rather acute, and slightly overhangs the lower mandible; its tomial
edge extremely sinuate and irregular, lightly notched just behind the tip, at the ...
Edward Newman, James Edmund Harting, William Lucas Distant, 1870
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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences
Upper mandible with the cul- Nnt. size. men short and regularly very convex from
base to tip, which latter is rather acute, and slightly overhangs the lower mandible
; its tomial edge extremely sinuate and irregular, lightly notched just behind the ...
Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia, Pa.), 1868
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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Bill of immense size; _chord of culmen 2.50, greatest depth 1.20; the culminal
and tomial portions highly turgid. Upper parts very dark, scarcely washed with
bluish, and quite black on the head; frontal and coronal feathers lengthened and
...
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1872
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The zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history
Upper mandible with the culmen short and regularly very convex from base to tip,
which latter is rather acute, and slightly overhangs the lower mandible; its tomial
edge extremely sinuate and irregular, lightly notched just behind the tip, at the ...
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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Upper mandible with the cul- men short and regularly very convex from base to
tip, which latter is rather acute, and slightly overhangs the lower mandible : its
tomial edge extremely sinuate and irregular, lightly notched just behind the tip, at
the ...
6
Magnificent Mihirungs: The Colossal Flightless Birds of the ...
Shearing facet Tomial groove Tomial groove Internal ere Symphysis Fig. 186.
The bony tomial morphology of (A) Dromornis stirtoni, tilted to reveal the palatal
surface; and (B) Bullockornis planei, with the right lower mandible removed to
show ...
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Owls of the United States and Canada: A Complete Guide to ...
Owls, however, do not have the “tomial teeth” that falcons have to make their bite
more effective. A single tomial tooth is present along the cutting edge on each
side of a falcon's upper beak. Raptor biologists believe that falcons use these
teeth ...
8
Biology and Conservation of North American Tortoises
Included species: O. laticunea; plus additional nominal species (chapter 2). Late
Eocene to Middle Oligocene. Definition: Skull: dolicocephalic; middle ear
relatively large; inner ear (prootic and opisthotic) bones well exposed dorsally;
tomial ...
David C. Rostal, Earl D. McCoy, Henry R. Mushinsky, 2014
Falconiformes and a few kites, however, it has a so-called 'tomial tooth' on the
upper mandible and a corres- ponding notch on the lower. Falcons use this tooth
for killing prey by a neck bite that severs the vertebrae (a habit unknown among ...
David A. Christie, James Ferguson-Lees, 2010
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Contributions in Science
From that angle to premaxillary region, the tomial edge is almost perfectly straight
in profile (no concavity, no convexity). In anterior view, the sheath is flat or slightly
concave in premaxillary region. Maxillary tomial edge lacking distinct notches ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOMIAL»
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Fire leaves 67 families in Lapu-Lapu homeless
The BFP Lapu-Lapu City District said the fire started in the living room of Jocelyn Tomial and quickly spread to nearby houses made of light materials. «Sun.Star, Dec 13»
Peregrine Falcon Chicks Hatch On Easter Sunday in San Jose
Peregrines have very large feet for their body size to grab birds in midair and a "tomial" tooth, which is a special notch in their beak to sever their prey's spinal ... «KQED QUEST, Apr 13»
Neck-breaking, disembowelling, constricting and fishing – the …
Falcons use a notched ridge on their upper beak – the 'tomial tooth' – to sever the spine or crush the head, while owls sometimes break their prey's neck with a ... «ScienceBlogs, Nov 09»
