rectrix
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Origin of rectrix
1605–15; < Latin rēctrīx, feminine of rēctor rector
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The outermost rectrix of No. 31633 is wholly white; the second rectrix is nearly as white.
From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Urban, Emil K.
On 2nd September the left central rectrix was almost at the end of its growth, the right had ceased to grow a little before.
From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.
The exterior rectrix is entirely black; the second has a clear brown stripe on the inside border.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
Length of erupted portion of "average" rectrix 17.0 ......
From The Postnatal Development of Two Broods of Great Horned Owls Bubo virginianus by Hoffmeister, Donald F.
Representatives of P. c. amoenissima have black at the base of the inner web of the outermost rectrix more extended, usually showing beyond the tip of the under tail coverts.
From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Urban, Emil K.
The abortion of the rectrices in the gerbes, while these feathers are fairly developed in the divers, is another point that helps to separate the two Families.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
Female brownish cinereous; cap and rump rufous; wings blackish, tips of coverts and edges of outer secondaries whitish; tail blackish, inner webs of all the lateral rectrices, except the tips, rufous; beneath whitish.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
The tail-coverts are unusually long, those below as long as the longest rectrices, and projecting in the fork of the tail.
From Descriptions of Three New Birds from the Belgian Congo Bulletin of the AMNH , Vol. XXXIV, Art. XVI, pp. 509-513, Oct. 20th, 1915 by Chapin, James
For birds undergoing postnuptial or postjuvenal molt, the degree of advancement of the molt is indicated by the numbers of primaries and rectrices that are new or partly ensheathed.
From Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula by Klaas, Erwin E.
Slightly elevated remiges and rectrices, still in the sheath, were visible on the ninth day.
From The Postnatal Development of Two Broods of Great Horned Owls Bubo virginianus by Hoffmeister, Donald F.
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