The two " Geronticus " species differ from other ibises in that they have unfeathered faces and heads, breed on cliffs rather than in trees, and prefer arid habitats to the wetlands used by their relatives.
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Also, the condition of a shut down but unfeathered engine, i . e . windmilling propeller with high asymmeteric drag and minimum control implications, which was encountered in this accident, was insufficiently covered, according to the NTSB.
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Common traits include a band of black that runs around their bodies bordering their black dorsal coloring, black beaks with a small vertical white band, distinct spots on their bellies, and a small patch of unfeathered or thinly feathered skin around their eyes that can be either white or pink.
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Carol Semenza, a meat and poultry farmer from Germantown, N . Y ., said the cold had come on so suddenly that some of her calves, their coats still not fully grown in, had fallen ill, and many young chickens, caught nearly unfeathered between moltings, had died.
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Thus, the Tasmanian Emu had not progressed to the point where it could be considered a distinct species, and even its status as a distinct subspecies is not universally accepted as it agreed with the mainland birds in measurements and the external characters used to distinguish it a whitish instead of black foreneck and throat and an unfeathered neck apparently are also present, albeit rare, in some mainland birds.
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For example, the 91st Highland Regt of Foot wore trews during the Walcheren campaign of 1809 and more famously, the 93rd Highland Regiment of Foot wore trews and round unfeathered Highland bonnets during the War of 1812 ( from 1812 to 1815 ) against the US, when taking part in the British campaign to capture New Orleans in January 1815 and during the disastrous Battle of Chalmette Plain itself ( lithographs of the battle wrongly depict them wearing kilts ).
