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Definition of Coverts
1. covert [n] - See also: covert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coverts
Literary usage of Coverts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1865)
"... whereas the female of affinis, besides its duller plumage, has the wing coverts
brownish black barred and tipped with rufous, and the smaller quills ..."
2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1888)
"General colour above olive-brown, a little more sandy on the lower back and rump ;
lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts, ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"Adults of this species may always be known by the rich rufous lessor wing-coverts.
Immature birds are sometimes confused with the young of the Red-tailed or ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1892)
"t — Mr Chapman has availed himself of a large series of skins of Cola fîtes to
study the differences in color pattern of the upper tail-coverts. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"How Feme coverts are to be indicted, (a.) Indictments against the Wife alone.
§ 67. There is no technical objection to an indictment naming the wife singly. ..."
6. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1904)
"faulting have become disassociated from the rest of the row, and serial with the
median coverts from the sixth inwards. Similarly, the displaced median ..."
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