Spiza (spiza)

[NL. (Bonaparte, 1828), Dickci el (Spiza american a). Euspiza. The male is 6 inches long, 10 in extent of wings; plumage is smooth and compact; the upper parts are grayish-brown, streaked with black on the back; the low er are whitish, shaded with gray, tinged with bright yellow on the breast, and marked with a large black throat-patch; the edge of the wing is yellow; the le er and middle coverts are bright-chestnut; the lower eyelid is white, the per ciliary stripe yellow, and the bill dark horn-blue. The female is similar, but plainer, being le tinged with yellow, and having no black throat-patch, but a few black maxillary or pectoral streaks. This bunting is widely but irreg splash νον, pl. σπλάγχνα, viscera, + ἀπόφυσις, an offshoot: see apophysis.] An apophysis or outgrowth of a vertebra on the opposite side of the vertebral axis from a neurapophysis, and inclosing or tending to inclose some viscus. See cut under hyp apophysis. splanchnic (splangk'nik), a. and n. [ II. n. A splanchnic nerve. splanchnocæle (splangk'nō-sēl), n. [ σπλάγχνα , the viscera, + κοίλος, hollow.] A visceral cavity; specifically, the visceral cavity of a brachiopod, an anterior division of which is the brachiocele or brachial chamber, and the lateral parts of the posterior division of which are the pleurocæles.