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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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sioned tlie species to have been greatly multiplied by noraencla-tors. The female is generally one-third larger than the male, which, on this account, has been nameda tercel. It is necessary to subdivide this genus first into two sections.The Falcons, properly so called, (Falco, Bechstein), commonly termed the Noble Birds of Prey,—Compose the first. They are the most courageous inproportion to their size, a quality which is derived fromthe power of their armature and wings. Their beak(fig. 74), curved from its base, has a sharp tooth on eachside near the point; and the second quill of their wingsis the longest, the first nearly equalUng it, wliich rendersthe entire ning longer and more pointed. From this,also, result particular habits: the length of the quills oftheir wings weakens their efforts to ascend vertically, andrenders their forward flight, in a calm state of the at-mosphere, very oblique, necessitating them, when theywish to rise directly, to fly against the wind. They are
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