loral¹

Historical Examples

• Loral plumage, it is true, is seldom long, but is often of a peculiar nature.

  The Making of Species

  Douglas Dewar

• Female similar but paler; the loral band wanting; throat, fore neck, and breast yellow, without the black lunule.

  A Synopsis of the Birds of North America

  John James Audubon

• Forehead and loral region orange; rest of head green like back; no yellow on bend of wing.

  Color Key to North American Birds

  Frank M. Chapman

• Forehead, loral region, stripe over eye, bend of wing and thighs red; greater under wing-coverts yellow; rest of plumage green.

  Color Key to North American Birds

  Frank M. Chapman

• The forehead and sides of the head and neck are pale buff, with narrow, black frontal, loral and malar stripes.

  Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2)

  Arthur Cleveland Bent