The sleeves are fully lined with University blue satin, with red and gold satin edgings. The flight feathers are black with steel blue edgings and the entire underparts are yellow. The sexes are similar, but young birds have rufous edgings to the wings and tail. One example is the Spanish infantry of Hannibal who wore white tunics with crimson edgings. The wing feathers are black with tips and edgings of creamy-buff. The wings have a silvery appearance due to white feather edgings. The wings and tail are black with pale green edgings. The tortoise's scutes have dark edgings that fade with age. The wings and tail have blue edgings. In the colonial era, the edgings were made of bottles planted into the ground bottom-up. On an original authentic suit of Japanese armour (gusoku) the cloth backings, edgings, decorations etc.