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A Bird's Covert Feathers Crossword Clue and Answers List

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PLUMAGE Bird’s feathers
INTERSCAPULARS The interscapular feathers of a bird.
FRILL A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
REMIGES The quill feathers of the wings of a bird.
RECTRIX One of the quill feathers of the tail of a bird.
ORBITARY Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
SUPRALORAL Situated above the lores; as, the supraloral feathers of a bird.
ROUGH-LEGGED Having the legs covered with feathers; -- said of a bird.
PRUNING That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings.
TECTRICES The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.
RUFF A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
CRISSUM That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.
SARCEL One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.
STARTHROAT Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.
STANDARD-WING A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
MOULT To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.
EMU WREN A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.
GRADUATED Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.
PRIMARY One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.
PTERYLA One of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.
TERTIARY One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
COVERT One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
QUILL One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.
UROPYGIUM The prominence at the posterior extremity of a bird's body, which supports the feathers of the tail; the rump; -- sometimes called pope's nose.
OO A beautiful bird (Moho nobilis) of the Hawaiian Islands. It yields the brilliant yellow feathers formerly used in making the royal robes. Called also yellow-tufted honeysucker.
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