The bright yellow of the edge of the wings, under coverts and axillaries is seldom seen, on account of the extreme wariness of the bird.
While the flanks and under tail-coverts of magna are distinctly washed with buff, those of neglecta are white, very faintly tinged with buff, if at all.
In this place these birds found coverts from enemies and suitable sites for their nests.
But, oddly enough, her sides and under tail-coverts were stained with a rufous tint--a color that does not appear at all in the costume of the male.
Lores and space in front of eye gray like the crown; under tail-coverts uniform white; or white with rather narrow wide-set black bars, which are generally confined to the middle of the feathers.
Similar to the adult, but lores and forehead blue; back buffy brown; remiges and rectrices largely buffy brown; under tail-coverts white washed with buff.
Crown and earcoverts black, underparts and line over eye yellow; no white in the plumage.
Adult male with the head and throat yellow, usually with some concealed orange brown on the forehead; lesser wing-coverts reddish brown.
His wife was a Totteridge, and his coverts admirable.
He came of an old Kentish family which had migrated to Cambridgeshire; his coverts were exceptionally fine; he was also a Justice of the Peace, a Colonel of Yeomanry, a keen Churchman, and much feared by poachers.
The scent of the coverts stole to him, and he thought: 'What a ripping day for shooting!
You have explained to me that it is your duty to have the Barsetshire coverts properly shot, and I have acceded to your views.
The owners of coverts had protested, and farmers had sworn that he should not ride over their lands.
Finn, and Warburton, and I have still a fewcoverts to shoot.
Surbiton was passed, when it turned off by way of Hook and Telegraph Hill, by Prince's Coverts to Leatherhead, and so into Dorking.
Young birds have the whole back up to the nape of the neck and down to the tail coverts dark brown, each feather tipped with a lighter and more rufous brown.
If none is forthcoming, he will note with his eye the coverts or places of refuge on ahead of him, and consider which of them was most probably the destination of the quarry.
The existence of these red under tail-coverts in such diverse species can, I think, be explained only on the hypothesis that there is an inherent tendency to variation in this direction in many species.
It is distinguished by the wing coverts being spotted with rufous and black.
The primary wing- feathers may be white or black, and the whole body may be of any colour, but if the wing-coverts are blue, the two black bars are sure to appear.
They are symmetrically coloured, with a spot on the forehead, with the tail and tail-coverts of the same colour, the rest of the body being white.
Scottish islands, and has a very different appearance owing to the wing-coverts being chequered with black, with similar marks often extending over the back.
It may be observed in several of these cases, that the tail first shows a tendency to become by reversion blue; and this fact of the persistency of colour in the tail and tail-coverts (6/29.
The inferior tail-coverts vary in number, and according to a German superstition the hen lays as many eggs as the cock has feathers of this kind.
The warrior band leaps forth eagerly on the Hesperian shore; some seek the seeds of flame hidden in veins of flint, some scour the woods, the thick coverts of wild beasts, and find and shew the streams.
Nay, she flies into the woodland under feigned Bacchic influence, assumes a greater guilt, arouses a greater frenzy, and hides her daughter in the mountain coverts to rob the Teucrians of their bridal and stay the marriage torches.
It may be imagined that on this special day Mr. Daly's heart was low beneath his black-striped waistcoat, as he rode on his way to draw the coverts at Ballytowngal.
But they can't be expected to pay when there will be no covertsfor them to draw.
We met at Ballinamona, and we drew Blake's coverts without a word.
It was not among the coverts appointed to be drawn on that day, which all lay back towards Ahaseragh.
Nevertheless the provocation to him to go to London was very great, and he had only put it off till the last coverts should be drawn on Saturday the 2nd of April.
But as he heard of the crowds surrounding the coverts through the county, he thought also of his many acres still under water, by the operation of a man who had taken upon himself to be his enemy.
And among the evils was the unparalleled insolence which they displayed in entering coverts in County Galway.
After each succeeding moult in spring and autumn, the traces of immaturity grow less, the wing-coverts and tail retaining them longest.
It should here be remarked that the wing coverts of the adults seem only to be moulted in the autumn, so that this portion of their plumage is always the same colour after the bird reaches the adult stage of its existence.
In places they rest in shady pools or pour their wealth of sparkling waters over ledges of rocks or seek deep coverts where tall ferns wave and the birch "dreams golden dreams where no sunlight comes.
The birds came forth from their leafy covertsand shook the water drops from their feathers while their notes rained like "liquid pearls" around us.
We unfastened the curtains that we might have a better view of the birds that emerged from their leafy coverts and sang all about us.
They all loved the wilderness too well not to be a little saddened by the clearing away of bosky coverts and the drying up of rippling streams.
Also foxes commonly dwell in great hedges or in great coverts or in burrows near some towns or villages for to evermore harm hens and other things as I have said.
They haunt thick coverts of wood, or thick heathes, and sometimes in carres (marshes) and commonly in high countries or in hills and valleys and sometimes in the plains.
When they are hunted they bound again into their coverts and fly not so long as doth the hart, for sometimes they run upon the hounds.
He says January, February, and March are the best months for hunting, as the leaf is off the trees and the coverts are clearer, so that the hounds have more chance of seeing the fox and hunt him closer.
I'll lay any odds they will beat thosecoverts to-night, and, by George!
She was glad to be out of the way of meeting any one, especially the shooters, whose guns she had heard in the nearer Slumberleigh coverts several times that afternoon.
Shaw's got two men at the end of the glade, but it's the nearest coverts he is keenest on, because they can get a horse and cart up close to take the game, and get off sharp if they are surprised.
Four poachers had been taken red-handed in the coverts farthest from Arleigh.
Here the most frequent sounds are from sighing waves and heavy seas; but, when the weather is calm, feathered songsters of varied notes come from their coverts of safety to sing songs of joy.
In these coverts swarms of human beings are born, live, and die, in this condensed condition, regardless of comforts.
At that time Lord Hertford began to hunt the Cotswold country, in Gloucestershire, and was the first to draw coverts for fox in the modern style.
I have noticed these disagreeable bloodsuckers only on the heads and bodies of sporting or Collie dogs, who had been boring for some time through coverts and thickets.
The wild turkey of Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado is a dark bronze bird with a light-colored rump, caused by the upper tail coverts being tipped with a broad subterminal band of white, narrowly tipped with black.
The general color is buff, mottled with brown; wing-coverts and speculum, same as the male.
The general color of the back and the wing and tail coverts is a dark blue with about half of the exposed portion of each feather tipped with a bright, rich brown.
Under parts white, but mottled with dusky on the breast, where it also tinged with buff, and barred very distinctly on each side further back; under tail-coverts barred with buff and black.
On lifting the wing-coverts they are seen to arise from two tubular horny sheaths, which diverge from near the point of junction of the carpal bones.
The glossy wing-coverts (when fully expanded, more than nine inches across) are of a fine green colour and so beautifully veined as to imitate closely some of the large shining tropical leaves.
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