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ll of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather.

Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

, Baking, etc. -- Powder down (Zoöl.), the peculiar dust, or exfoliation, of powder-down feathers. -- Powder-down feather (Zoöl.), one of a peculiar kind of modified feathers which sometimes form patches on certain parts of some birds. They have a greasy texture and a scaly exfoliation. -- Powder-down patch (Zoöl.),…

bright yellow; the sides of the throat and spots along the sides, black; three outer tail feathers partly white. -- Prairie wolf. (Zoöl.) See Coyote.

To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds. Derham.

such are essential to and inseparable from them. -- Primary quills (Zoöl.), the largest feathers of the wing of a bird; primaries. -- Primary rocks (Geol.), a term early used for rocks supposed to have been first formed, being crystalline and containing no organic remains, as granite, gneiss, etc.; -- called also pr…

and Darkness. -- Prince of Wales, the oldest son of the English sovereign. -- Prince's feather (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs (Amarantus caudatus and Polygonum orientale), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. -- Prince's metal, Prince Rupert's metal. See under Metal. P…

The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing. Spenser. J. H. Walsh.

olden yellow, the back is olivaceous, the rump and tail are ash-color, several outer tail feathers are partly white.

That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings. Beau. & Fl. Pruning hook, or Pruning knife, cutting instrument used in pruning trees, etc. -- Pruning shears, shears for pruning trees, vines, etc.

A yellow pigment found in the feathers of certain parrots.

grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.

ng the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a feather.

Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans.

One of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.

The study or description of the arrangement of feathers, or of the pterylæ, of birds.

The arrangement of feathers in definite areas.

. They are small birds, usually with dull-colored and loose plumage, and have twelve tail feathers. See Barbet (b).

us species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.

Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.