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retrix
pl. retrices a large tail feather at the pelvic inlet.


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I recorded each bird's age as either after-hatch year (AHY) or hatch-year (HY) based on skull ossification, plumage, or retrix fault bars (Pyle 1997).
The largest proportional differences in structural measurements between males and females were also greatest in bill depth, followed by tail retrix R1 length, tarsus length, and head-to-bill length (Table 1).
The short retrices were black, with a short whitish tip visible on the right outer retrix.
 
 
 
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