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Show 1901.] PTERYLOSIS OF THE GIANT HUMMING-BIRD. 313 interspaces, the bands come near together in the middle line, and the space between is here occupied by a longitudinal row of three or four feathers. Tta second lateral band (b), beginning in the loral area (text-fig. 77, lor.tr.) behind the nostril, that is to say considerably Text-fig. 78. A -FR. APT. - St/PR/l. oc. flpr. - OCCIP. FlPT, hu/v. TR 1' Pterylosis of Patagona gigas, dorsal view, reduced. fr.apt., frontal apterion ; dors.apt., dorsal do.; supra-oc.apt., supra-ocular do.; D.al.apt., dorsal alar do. &c.; t. marg., med., maj., marginal, median, and major coverts; hum.tr., humeral tract; dors.tr., dorsal do. posterior to the commencement of the upper band, divides into three parts : firstly, a single row of feathers which courses over the top of the orbit and then divides into two rows, of which the outer stops short above the ear, while the other, running parallel and close to the band previously described, proceeds down the side |