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Show 346 MR. R. S. WRAY ON THE MORPHOLOGY [Apr. 5, the next rows being in the skin covering the muscular portion of the wing and in the patagium. On the dorsal surface five rows of feathers (Plate X X X . fig. a, y) follow the t. mediae, lying with the same overlap, and on the manus being scantily represented ; they Fig. 1. L 2 3 4 © G j, VI uz a, a'. Drawings of preparations of tbe distal cubital remiges, witb their attached tectrices majores, of the Pheasant. a, Dorsal view; a', ventral view. (This shows the " qumcubital" condition.) b, b'. Drawings of preparations of the distal cubital remiges, with their attached tectrices majores, of the Golden Eagle. " Aquincubital." b, Dorsal view; b', ventral view; 1, 2, 3, &c. the remiges (E), numbered from the wrist-joint; D.C, dorsal tectrix major; V.C, ventral tectrix major; Ut, ulna. are the tectrices minores. They extend on to the arm, and on the dorsal surface of the humerus a row of 6 feathers becomes elongated, forming an apparent continuation of the remiges of the forearm, the feathers of the next row taking the form of coverts ; they |
