The three types of cones are often, and somewhat misleadingly, equated with Maxwell's additive primaries of red, blue, and green. |
For example, several lineages typically excluded from the nine-primaried oscines do have nine functional primaries per wing. |
Candidates are then chosen in primaries dominated by core left-wing Democrats or right-wing Republicans. |
We're taking it as a foregone conclusion that Dean is going to skate through the primaries unscathed. |
That scheduling results in little overlap between molt of rectrices and outer primaries, both of which are important to landing. |
In fact, it reminded me of a pintail duck in the way its primaries, the ten outermost feathers of the wing, seemed to do all the flying. |