The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 42
whydah finches were slower than theirmates, whose tails were of the usual length, sothat the males fell behind when a flock took wing. Among the pheasants such ornamental tails areof common occurrence, and there are numerousexamples among other families of birds. Perhaps FLYING THINGS 237 any… … V^ |^» THE PENNANT-WINGED NIGHTJAR. One of the rare instances in which the flight-feathers are lengthened as ornaments. numerous and embarrassing shapes. So rarelydo such modifications of wings occur that I canthink of only one striking example among thebirds of the world—the pennant-winged…
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