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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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de of the cesopliagus, in which it differs from that of any other bird; it also secretes a lacteal substance, as in the PaiTots, during the period of incubation. The gizzard is power-fully muscular; the intestines very long and slender, v\ith minute coeca; and there is no gall bladder]. The inferior larynx is fm- nished with but one muscle proper—[we have invariably found two pairs] ; but there is no other membrane between the base of the toes than that which residts from the continuity of the edges. The tail consists of twelve feathers, and they fly tolerably well. These birds are invariably monogamous, nestle in trees or tlie holes of rocks, and lay but very few eggs, ordinarily two, though they breed often. Both sexes incubate, and they feed their young by disgorging grain macerated in the crop. They form but one great genus, which naturalists have attempted to divide into tliree ^ ?~^ ^f subgenera, from the greater or less strength of the bill, and the proportions of the feet.
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