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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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y small, but very distinct from all others in the beak, which issliort, broad, horizontally depressed, slightly hooked, unemarginated, and very deeply cleft,so that the opening of the mouth is extremely wide, and suited for swallowing insects, whichare sought for on the wing. The tribe of Flycatchers is that to which they are most nearly allied, and especially thegenus Procnias, the beak of which only differs in its emargination. Their regimen, exclusively insectivorous [in the generality of instances]; renders thememinently birds of passage, which quit Eurojie in winter. They separate into diurnal andnocturnal, like the Birds of Prey. The Swallows {Hirundo, Lin.)—Are diurnal species remarkable for their close plumage, the extreme length of tlieir wings, and rapidityof flight. We distinguish among them The Swifts {Ci/pselus, lUiger),—Which, of all birds, liave proportionally the longest wings, and fly with the greatest rapidity. [The Humming-birds v\ill bear comparison, if not the
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pelagic Tacbypete.] Their tail is forked, [and con-sists of ten feathers only] ; their extremely shortfeet have a very peculiar character, the thumbbeing directed forward almost as mucli as tlieother toes, and the middle and outer toes havingeach but three phalanges, like the inner one. The shortness of the humerus, the breadth ofits apophyses, the oval fourchette [devoid of anymedial appendage], the sternum (fig. 92), destituteof posterior emarginations,—indicate, even in tlieskeleton, their adaptation for vigorous flight;while the shortness of their feet, combined witlitlie length of their wings, disables them from rising from a plane surface. Hence they pass their time P.VSSERIN.E. ID.j chiefly in the air, [even copulating on the wing], and pursue insects in flocks, sometimes at a groataltitude, uttering discordant screams. Tliev nestle in the holes of walls and rocks, and climh perpen-dicular surfaces with facility. [With this genus, we enter upon a very iliffercnt type of form
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