The Coraco-scapulars are feeble, and have so faint an articular surface that the humerus must have been rudimentary.
All the feathers are edged with greenish yellow, except the scapulars and the feathers of the neck, the edges of which are the colour of sulphur.
The scapulars and large wing-coverts are a mixture of blue, yellow, and green.
The back and rump are black, the feathers of the back being edged with white, whilst those of the rump and scapulars are edged with yellowish brown, darker in spring than summer.
The scapulars are situated between the coxae of the mid-legs and the base or axis of the upper organs of flight, and they seem to act as a fulcrum to each.
The female is much less showy, the black parts in the male being dark brown in this sex, and the white parts are suffused with brown; the elongated scapulars are wanting.
The female is much less conspicuous, the black being replaced by dark brown, the elongated scapulars are wanting, and the spot under the eyes only faintly indicated.
The adult male is distinguished by having the head and neck black, shot with metallic-green and purple, and the back and scapulars vermiculated with white and black.
In the female and young male, dark brown replaces the black, the cheek-spots are indistinct and the elongated white scapulars wanting.
It is a larger and stouter bird, and in the male the white cheek-patches take a more crescentic form, while the head is glossed with purple rather than green, and the white scapulars are not elongated.
Wings rather short, pointed; scapulars elongate and lanceolate in adult male; tail short, graduated except for two central feathers, which are long and tapering in adult male.
Adult female: Resembles adult male, but feathers forward of black nape band may be mixed white and cinnamon; back and scapulars duller and less olive.
Feathers on scapulars and sides of body are as those of Anas poecilorhyncha.
The female weighs over three pounds; the upper part of her body is dark, not so densely glossed as in the male; but the margin of the feathers of the scapulars and wing coverts is black, the under part dusky, with a mixture of grey.
If you had even told me that you were going to see them," said the former, "I would have given you some scapulars to take them.
This species is similar to the preceding, but has the scapularsmore broadly tipped with buff, the axillars barred, and the pinnated feathers on the neck pointed.
A handsome and very different species from any of the foregoing, having the crown ashy blue, and the long scapularsblack instead of white.
This species is similar to the eastern Towhee but has the scapulars and coverts tipped with white.
King James, the Founder, granted unto all the Fraternity, that they should wear upon their Scapulars the Arms of Aragon, viz.
But as his anger cooled he began to think that perhaps Biddy was right--a bazaar might be a good thing, and a distribution of medals and scapulars might induce his workmen to do some overtime.
He remembered the great pagans who had wandered over these hills before scapulars and rosaries were invented.
The black of scapulars sometimes meets on lower back.
He also had the Sacred Heart Badge, a crucifix, and his Blue and Brown Scapulars on him, so that I am content about the way he died.
Thus is the wearing of scapulars and medals in the Army welcomed as an aid to our arms, a reinforcement of our military power.
Young birds can, however, be recognized by the worn primaries and by some of the juvenal scapulars and wing coverts.
Two parallel stripes of brownish black distinctly mark the scapulars and two more the sides of the rump; the wings, back, rump, and thighs are less distinctly spotted or peppered with gray and dusky.
The partial prenuptial molt of adults comes in April and May and involves the body plumage, but not all the scapulars or rump or wing coverts.
A partial, or perhaps nearly complete, prenuptial molt takes place in young birds between March and May, involving the body plumage, sometimes the tail and most of the scapulars and wing coverts.
In first winter plumage young birds are much like adults, but the ashy brown upper parts are usually somewhat paler, and they can always be recognized by the juvenal wing coverts and a few retained scapulars and tertials.
The feathers of the back and scapulars are black, broadly edged with "hazel," and the scapulars are tipped with white.
In their first winter plumage young birds can be distinguished from adults only by the wing coverts and a few retained scapulars and tertials.
I have seen birds in this plumage up to October 13; but usually the partial postjuvenal molt of the body plumage and probably some of the scapulars and tertials begins in October.
Thus on many specimens some alternate feathers of the scapulars and tertials are of the previous winter's well-worn plumage.
Scapulars and inner third of inner secondaries black, the former tipped with blue, the latter with rufous washed with lilac.
This species is very different from any of the preceding, the crown being of an ashy blue, and the longscapulars black in place of the white of the others.
No markings on wing coverts, but scapulars spotted with white.
Neck feathers pointed; scapulars more broadly tipped with white; axillars always barred; top of head paler and always brownish.
At all seasons the edges of the scapulars and tips of the secondaries are white, as are usually spots on each eyelid.
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