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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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ribs; the single deep and angular posterior emargination, reduced to a foramen in some; the long, slender^and curving furcula, with invariably a compressed vertical appendage;—all are characters that at once indicate thepresent order, and exclude everyone of the genera that have beenenumerated. They have constantly a large brain,and characteristic form of skull, ex-cepting in one genus*; twelve tail-feathers, another character whichexcludes the genera Cypselus, Capri-mulgus, Podargus, Colius, Uptipa,Trochilus, and Buceros; and theirclothing feathers have rarely anytrace of the supplementary plume,«hich is never developed beyond afew do«Tiy filaments. All of them are hatched naked, and in nearly every instance from coloured or speckled eggs, larger at one end, and in a nest constructed and generally interwoven by the parents,—extremely few other Birds doing more than heaping together a quantity of materials.The toes are formed for perching; and are always three before and one hin
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