Additionally, the forelimb ( ulna ) of " Concavenator " preserved evidence of what may be quill knobs or homologous structures, an anatomical feature so far known only in animals with large, quilled feathers on the forelimb.
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Of all the Indian objects Lewis and Clark collected during their trip, from 1804 to 1806, only six others remain that can be traced definitively to the explorers : three raven belt ornaments, two basketry whalers'hats and one quilled otter bag.
23.
"Spinet " derives from the Italian " "'spinetta " "', which in 17th-century Italian was a word used generally for all quilled instruments, especially what in Elizabethan / Jacobean English were called virginals.
24.
The flowers won't open fully in the shade or on cloudy days . Virtually unheard of 25 years ago, this South African plant-- grown here as an annual-features daisy-like flowers, many with quilled ( or spoonlike ) petals and centers that are often blue.
25.
Likewise, the French derivation from " spinetta ", " "'�pinette " "', is specifically what the virginals is called in French, although the word is also used for any other small quilled instrument, whether a small harpsichord or a clavichord.
26.
But what was left of the light did wonderful things to the nimbus of blue flowers hovering around a pair of huge Mexican sage plants, the quilled pillows of agaves massed by the entrance, and the biscuit-colored circa 1820 church facade ( copied from a design by the Roman architect Vitruvius ).
27.
Within the derived characters we can underline the presence of a pygostile, although it is still very large compared to that of modern neornithines and the presence os quilled sternum . " Eoalulavis hoyasi " shows the first report of an alula or " bastard wing ", which means it had a flight manoeuvrability analogous to that of modern birds.