Neck-Covert

“From the head, backward to the tail, the body feathers increase in strength and size, also alter in form; those on the face, or around the base of the bill, being the smallest, the tail coverts longest.”

Keywords

down feathers, bird wings

Galleries

Bird Anatomy

Source

Hazlitt Alva Cuppy PH.D., Editor Beauties and Wonders of Land and Sea (Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1895)

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