| I plucked the outer right rectrix, thereby inducing the growth of a replacement. |
| It is defined as the distance between the tip of the longest rectrix and the point at which the two central rectrices protrude from the skin. |
| We also looked for evidence of multiple waves of rectrix replacement in the inner rectrices. |
| Table 6 summarizes rectrix replacement for the 58 presumed adults that were growing rectrices. |
| Rectrices are numbered from R1, the innermost rectrix to R5, the outermost rectrix. |
| Three of these immatures were initiating rectrix molt, and all were replacing R5, the outermost rectrix. |
