tarso-

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• The toes and tarso-metatarsus are usually featherless and are covered either with granular structures or with well-formed scales.

  The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds

• In Gallinaceous birds the tarso-metatarsus bears a bony outgrowth which is sheathed in horn and forms a spur.

  The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds

• The distal tarsals fuse with the second, third and fourth metatarsals, forming a compound bone, the tarso-metatarsus.

  The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds

• Allied to Aquila, from which it is distinguished by the ulna being relatively shorter and the tarso-metatarsus stouter.

  Extinct Birds | Walter Rothschild

• The tarso-metatarsus is either long and slender or short and wide, and its anterior surface may or may not be grooved.

  Extinct Birds | Walter Rothschild