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ˈdiscal
/ ˈdɪskəl /
adjective
- biology zoology relating to or resembling a disc; disclike
discal cells
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The ear-tufts are brown, with some slight buff shading, the discal plumes being white marked with buff.
The conspicuous marks in the discal cell, usually black or blackish, are sometimes pale or dark reddish brown.
The discal black spot varies in size and in shape; often it is roundish, and sometimes it is crescent-like.
In these dwarfs the orange patch does not reach beyond the black discal spot, which in normal specimens it usually does.
Occasionally an odd specimen with white discal spots is found in the south.
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