Barbs

“The arrangement shown in fig. 22, where a, a, a, a, are four barbs in transverse section, viewed from the cut surfaces, with their anterior, b, b, b, b, and posterior, c, c, c, c, barbules, the former bearing the hooklets which catch over the edge of the latter.” Elliot Coues, 1884

Keywords

birds, ornithology, bird anatomy, feathers, barbules, barbs, feather structures, hooklets, barb cross section

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Bird Anatomy

Source

Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1884)

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