remiges

The remiges and tail are blue, with the latter red at the base.

Medium brown above, except on the face and remiges, buffy below.

The bases of the primary remiges are also white.

In flight, the male's wings appear entirely white except for the dark primary remiges.

All remiges have three to four white spots on the inner vanes.

All true finches have 12 remiges and 9 primary rectrices.

There are 20 remiges; the 10th secondary is reduced in size and difficult to identify on study skins.

Females' backs have a brown hue, contrasting with the black remiges.

The remiges are dark blue, and the tail is long and tapering.

The juvenile has less contrast in the wings, but the remiges bear prominent white spots.

Owls have remiges which are serrated rather than smooth on the leading edge.

The wings are black with white secondary remiges.

To it, most of the primary remiges attach.

The upperside of the remiges and primary coverts are blue, as indicated by its common name.

What distinguished the skins were the black shafts to the remiges, or flight feathers.

They feature a "dull pale bar" at the bottom of their remiges, although this is not very noticeable.

The remiges are very short, rounded and much incurved, showing a bird of weak flight.

Their wing coverts are lighter than the remiges and covered in fine dark barring.

If seen at close distance, it can be recognized that its primary remiges are distinctly longer than in S. rubicola.

Remiges mainly green; only base is blue.

In one-day-old chicks primary remiges are shorter than the coverlets.

The primary and secondary remiges are blackish brown.

The speculum is a patch, often distinctly coloured, on the inner remiges of some birds.

The back, tail, and particularly the remiges show strong purplish-blue iridescence with few if any green hues.

The remiges (typically only visible in flight) are whitish barred blackish.