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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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usion npon the same principle as that of the Woodpeckers, and whichis split, almost to its base, into two filaments, employed, as is asserted, in sucking up the nectiir offlowers. They also, however, feed on small iisects, for we have found their stomach filled with them.Their very small feet, great tail, excessively elongated and narrow wings, and their very large sternum(fig. 95) without posterior emargination, combine to produce amode of flight similar to that of the Swifts, besides which the Hum-ming-birds balance themselves in the air by a rapid motion of thewings, like many Flies. It is thus they hirni about floweringshrubs and plants, and fly more rapidly than any other bird. Theirgizzard is very small, and they have no coeea, in which they ap-proximate the Woodpeckers. They live singly, defend their nestswith courage [attacking, with their needle-like bills, the eyes ofan intruder, which renders these minute creatures truly formida-ble], and fight with one another desperately.
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208 AVES. [The whole anatomy of a Humming-bird, internal as well as external, intimates a very close affinity with theSwifts : the beak and tongue even of which, though so different at first sight, will be found on examination todiffer only in not being drawn out. The Humming-birds, however, have a complicated inferior larynx, and toeswith the usual number of joints: their tail-feathers, as in the Swifts, are ten in number, save in one remarkablespecies (thence named T. oemcuriis), wherein they are reduced to six; the body-feathers have an accessoryplume, &c. The beak varies exceedingly, in being more or less prolonged, straight, arched downward, or evenrecurved, like that of an Avocet, two species exhibiting which structure are now known : those which have straightbeaks feed chiefly on minute insects, and have often the tip of the tongue furnished with retroflected lateral spines,precisely as in the Woodpeckers; while in the majority with curved bills, the upper mandible shuts ov
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