tarsus
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Some are sturdy leather brogues with heels extending beyond the back of the shoe; others have tongues that take their licks at the ankles, leaving even the slimmest tarsus looking like a giant redwood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bill strong; orbits naked; tarsus naked, male with a knob on the tarsus behind; tail of sixteen feathers, short, bent down.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
The fleshy body which succeeds is directed towards the tarsus, but before reaching it is replaced by a tendon.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
Two central tail-feathers tapering from the base, pointed, and projecting six inches; tarsus less than two inches.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
Description.—Plumage white; bill, naked head, and neck and feet black; naked crop in life red: whole length 54·0 inches, wing 26·0, tail 9·5, tarsus 11·5.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
