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The plumage nearly lacks gray or rufescent tones, and the undertail coverts have much paler bases that contrast less with the tips.
Landowners who did not hunt were still expected to plant and maintain gorse coverts.
Both sexes have extensive gray stippling on long scapulars and upper wing coverts.
Their back and wing coverts are heavily barred with black, as are their rust-brown tails which terminate with a narrow white band.
So hunts moved into direct land management, buying and planting small pieces of rough scrub as coverts.
The bird was black above with a white eyebrow and limited white on the wing coverts.
Most birds showed signs of moderate to heavy wear of the secondary coverts and rectrices.
The name of these birds comes from the vivid red coloring of the wing coverts.
Mounted hunters and foot followers, accompanied by novice hounds and men wielding whips and spades, surround fox coverts at dawn.
I couldn't help but admire the beautifully laid out game crops and newly-planted coverts.
Males are mostly green with red sides to the body and red underwing coverts, with some blue in the wings and tail.
The flight feathers are black, and the upper tail coverts and rump area are cobalt blue.
Some hunts even constructed artificial earths within their coverts to further encourage the fox population.
The only man to poach another's foxes was one whose own coverts were bare, never a poor man looking for his dinner.
Yearlings in the study were identified in the hand by the olivegreen edges of their alulae and primary coverts.
Color is particularly important in primary and secondary coverts, whereas shape and abrasion are most useful on flight feathers.
He can capably hunt bobwhite quail and pheasants in the brushy coverts.
Its belly and underwing coverts were dark, but his tail was red.
It has brown upperparts, greyish-blue underparts, a red-based yellow bill, white undertail coverts, and red eyes and legs.
In flight, black axillaries contrast with white under-wing coverts.
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Incidentally we may remark that the whinchat is also a frequenter of the gorse coverts and the moorlands.
Wings and tail slate-black edged chiefly with bluish plumbeous gray, the coverts and tertiaries with olive-green.
Wing coverts black, plumbeous edged and tipped with white tinged with wood-brown forming two wing bands.
I am ill skilled in beating the coverts of imagination for metaphors of gratitude.
Now that the risk is known, I do not think there will be any more prowling in my coverts.
Nevertheless, the Squire, with a friend or two, had shot the coverts after a fashion.
This species is similar to the parula but is more extensively yellow below, and has black lores and ear coverts.
The bird differs from the black guillemot only in having the bases of the coverts white also.
You may look to other p. 84refuges but they are not secure, to other coverts but they are not safe.
The coverts at Humblethwaite, such as they were, would always be at his service.
There was no trace of any concealed marksman, search the coverts as they would.
This Yellow-throat has the crown and ear coverts gray, only the lores and forehead being black.
Bears, hidden in their coverts, gazed at him with curious eyes.
The rabbits seemed to have fled from all the coverts about their mountain.
We were to have had a nice little hunt not far from Cassan, and beaten the coverts I know.
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