- ostrich

OSTRICH, and parts of it, are common bearings in Coat Armour. The Ostrich is usually represented in Heraldry with horse-shoe or key in its mouth. P. 33. f. 40. (ELVN)

OSTRICH, head couped between two ostrich wings. P. 33, f. 41. (ELVN)

OSTRICH Feathers are borne single, and in plumes. See Plume, and P. 6, f. 21 ; P. 25, f. 22 and 23 ; also P. 43, f. 37 to 40. (ELVN)

Ostrich рус. страус

фр. autruche

англ. ostrich

Эта птица встречается в одном или двух гербах

«Sable, an ostrich argent» – MATTHEWS, Cornwall.

«Sable, a fesse between three ostriches argent membered gules» – BOYTON.

«Argent, an ostrich sable holding in the beak a horseshoe or (otherwise gules)» – MACMAHON, Ireland.

«Per fesse argent and gules, three ostrich's heads erased, each holding in the beak a horseshoe, all counterchanged» – RYED.

Более часты перья страуса, называемые «plume of ostrich»; сейчас служат знаком принца Уэльского. (См. Escroll).

«Azure, semy of fleur-de-lis a lion rampant guardant argent; on a bend gules an ostrich feather of the second between two bezants» – HOLLAND, London.

«Azure, two ostrich feathers in saltire between three boar's heads, couped at the neck, argent, bristled and tusked or» – NEWTON, co. Kent.

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