单词 | primary quill |
例句 | The smallness of the primary quills of his wing—as well as the unwieldy size of the secondaries, forms an impediment to his progress through the air, and his flight is short and heavy. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains This peculiar inflexible motion of the wings, as if they were little sickles of sheet iron, seems to be owing to the length and development of the primary quills and the smallness of the secondary. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs The primary quills had not been moulted, and are quite those of the immature bird, with no white tip whatever. Birds of Guernsey (1879) And the Neighbouring Islands: Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm; Being a Small Contribution to the Ornitholony of the Channel Islands Its body is ash-gray above, the wing coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red at the base and black distally, some of them with white spots, and the tail is blackish. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W Now in skinning a bird there are a number of delicate and unusual operations, such as stripping the primary quills from the bone, cutting the ear cover, and the like. The Land of Footprints |
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