-
class into
featherless and feathered, [...]]
Diogenes Laërtius,
Lives of
Philosophers 6.40.
Quoted in "Plato and
Diogenes debate featherless bipeds", Lapham's...
- legs, and one tail. The
featherless bird-riddle is best
known in
Central Europe. An
English version is:
White bird
featherless Flew from Paradise, Perched...
- 3 m (4 ft 3 in). The ****es are
similar in appearance.
Adults have a
featherless red-orange face and
predominantly grey plumage, with a
flattened dark...
- The
featherless bird-riddle is an
international riddle type that
compares a
snowflake to a bird. In the
nineteenth century, it
attracted considerable...
-
Gular skin (throat skin), in ornithology, is an area of
featherless skin on
birds that
joins the
lower mandible of the beak (or bill) to the bird's neck...
- It is
characterized by pox scabs,
which most
frequently form on the
featherless parts of the bird. The
disease is
caused by the
Pigeon pox virus. It...
- of the four
great classical novels in
Chinese literature.
Nicknamed "
Featherless Arrow", he
ranks 16th
among the 36
Heavenly Spirits, the
first third...
- black-feathered bird,
distinguished from
similar species by the
whitish featherless area on the face.
Rooks nest
collectively in the tops of tall trees,...
- long-tailed widowbird. The
chicks of p****erines are altricial: blind,
featherless, and
helpless when
hatched from
their eggs. Hence, the
chicks require...
- (an
ignis fatuus or will o' the wisp) or, in its more
benign form as a
featherless chicken. In
Brazil and the
rainforests of the
Amazon basin, the Amazon...
