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Image from page 328 of “The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy” (1849)
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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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PALMIPEDES. 25.3
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pointed nails. Tliey are nortliern birds, wliich rarely nestle with us, and visit these latitudes inwinter, when they are not uncommon upon our coasts. [They have large wings, and fly strongly,but in consequence of the position of the feet, the tibia being quite buried within the integuments,are unable to walk, though they push themselves forward with facility and tolerable speed, trailingupon the belly. They have a short tail, on the tripod of which and the feet they are enabled tostand upright, and take a wide view around them by means of their long neck : tlicy utter dismalbowlings ; and produce large spotted eggs, two or three in number, which are extremely unlike thoseof the Grebes. Three species are well known, tlie whole of which are not riire in Hritiiin. One, as large as a Goose (Col, gla-eialis\ the Collared Loon, black above, beautifully spotted with white, with a nearly perfect collar of the some^ round the neck, and a black head. The second, (C. glacialis), the Ulack-thro
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