auriculars

The auriculars are gray with the upper edge forming a black eye line.

Females lack the mask, but instead have a black patch behind the eyes on the auriculars.

The head is gray with a rufus crown auriculars or ear coverts.

The breeding male is unmistakable, with a striking green nape, yellow and black auriculars, neck, and throat.

The ears are located slightly behind and below the eyes, and they are covered with soft feathers - the auriculars - for protection.

It is a predominantly green and yellow-plumaged bird that in adults has a yellow crown, lores, cheeks and auriculars.

Males have bright yellow feathers on the auriculars, cheeks, throat, neck-sides and chest, but these areas are black in the female, except for the blue throat.

Its plumage is mostly pale blue, with a purplish-blue crown, distinctive dark spots across the chest, dark lores and lower auriculars.

There is a red spot on the auriculars and the tail is broadly tipped dull red (entirely dull red from below).

Its plumage is overall greenish-yellow, the lores are whitish, the crown is often greyish and some subspecies have a dusky patch on the auriculars.

The remaining plumage is green, while the throat, cheeks and auriculars are purple-blue, the forecrown is red, and the retrices are broadly tipped dark blue.

The description of the Manu Parrotlet has been described as the upper parts, nape, auriculars, dorsum, tertials, wing covers, rump, upper-tail, and rectrices are bright green.

The feathers of the breast, abdomen, and throat are yellow; those of the coverts, primaries, secondaries, scapulars, auriculars, lores, and tail are black; the crown feathers are russet.

The female resembles the male, but with extensive orange-yellow edging to the wing-coverts, yellowish streaking to the auriculars and back, and the black streaking of the flanks also extending over the chest.

For as often as the Archicadenus, pleacing aside his Irish Field and craving their auriculars to recepticle particulars before they got the bump at Castlebar (mat and far!)

The Turquoise Jay has a thick, black face mask that extends to the auriculars and connects to a thin, black collar the wraps around the throat but does not extend around the nape of the neck.

Adults are short-necked, relatively short-legged and stout herons; the two extant species both have a black crown and a whitish belly, while the wings, chest, neck and auriculars are grey or rufous depending on the species.

The superficially similar Chestnut-backed Thrush is substantially larger when seen alongside one another, and has a black crown and rufous back, whereas the Enggano Thrush has an olive-ochre back and little or no white on the lores and auriculars.

As other members of the Pyrrhura picta complex, it is a long-tailed mainly green parakeet with a dark red belly, rump and tail-tip (tail all dark red from below), a whitish or dull buff patch on the auriculars and bluish remiges.

The cap, belly, thighs, most of the wings and tail-tip are dark brownish, the auriculars, throat and nape are whitish-buff, and the chest, neck, mantle, back, uppertail-coverts, crissum and basal part of the tail are whitish-buff barred dark brownish.

Burton's conclusion was that in 2 of 38 specemins of Cyclura lewisi, the fourth auricular row was so reduced as to appear like Cyclura nubila caymanensis, and in six of 38 C. n. caymanensis, a complete row of five auriculars was present.