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Animal locomotion : or, walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics (1873)

Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908 · London : Henry S. King · leaf 199

An illustration from Animal locomotion : or, walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics, 1873, leaf 199 — 17-5, PROGRESSION IN OR THROUGH THE AIR. pinions. It is corrected in some by curving the body, in others by bending or straightening the limbs and antennae, but principally in all by the judicious play of the wings themselves. The wing of the bat and bird, like that of the insect, is… … Fig. 94. Fig. 95. Fig. 94. — Right wiug of the Bat ( Phyllorhina gracilis), dorsal surface, d ef, Anterior or thick margin of the wing, supported by the bones of the arm, forearm, and hand (first and second phalanges) ; c a b, posterior or thin margin, supported by the remaining phalanges, by the…

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