Bulletin United States National Museum, 1914 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Bulletin United States National Museum, 1914

For the names of colors Mr. Robert Ridgway's recently published Color Standards and Nomenclature 1 has been adopted as the standard.

The numbering of the primaries is from the outermost, since this is so much more convenient in descriptive ornithology, although, of course, indefensible from a morphological standpoint.

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