Tail Coverts

Word TAIL COVERTS
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It is almost entirely of a slatey colour, with yellow bill and feet, but the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts each terminate in a rigid, glossy pencil or tuft of a vivid crimson. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The rest of the bath is orange-brown, the tail-coverts and tail dark bronzy, the wings light orange-buff: The whole under surface is covered with an abundance of plumage springing from the margins of the breast, and of a rich deep green colour, with changeable hues of purple. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The dancers were entirely unclad, but were painted in all kinds of curious designs, and the male performers wear on the top of the head a fine broad plume of the tail-coverts of the white egret. ❋ Various (1909)

His upper parts are bluish gray, save the outer tail feathers, which are black; his cheeks and throat are white, his breast and belly buff, and his flanks and lower tail-coverts chestnut red. ❋ Unknown (1896)

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. ❋ Unknown (1896)

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. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The white-breasted nuthatch may be known by his flat body and broad shoulders, his bluish gray coat, black cap and mantle (all in one piece), white cravat, shirt bosom and vest, with a few rufous decorations on the belly and under tail-coverts. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The head and neck and upper part of the back were emerald green, with the metallic glitter usually seen in the burnished scale-like feathers of these small birds; the lower half of the back was velvet-black; the tail and tail-coverts white as snow. ❋ Unknown (1881)

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. ❋ Elliott Coues (1870)

Among birds the most brilliant colours are possessed by those which have developed frills, crests, and elongated tails like the humming-birds; immense tail-coverts like the peacock; enormously expanded wing-feathers, as in the argus-pheasant; or magnificent plumes from the region of the coracoids in many of the birds of paradise. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

In a quite distinct set of birds, the gallinaceae, we find the ornamental plumage usually arising from very different parts, in the form of elongated tail-feathers or tail-coverts, and of ruffs or hackles from the neck. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

Reddish-hazel feathers cover the throat and breast, while the upper tail-coverts and back are of a dark slaty-blue. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The lower part of the back, and the upper tail-coverts, are of a resplendent green with an orange gloss; and the wings and tail of purple-black, the two elongated feathers of the tail excepted -- they being of a purplish-green. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The chief colour of this bird is a bronzed green, the upper tail-coverts being of a richer and redder hue. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Between the wing and upper tail-coverts appear flowing plumes, which droop gracefully over the firmer feathers of the tail and sides. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The upper tail-coverts are greyish-white, and the under deep crimson. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The upper tail-coverts are exceedingly long, projecting considerably beyond the tail, and flowing gracefully over the stiffer feathers beneath them. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

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