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Scientific American, Vol. 78, No. 7 (February 1898) (1898)

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when feeding, thesebirds hang head downward from the branch uponwhich they roost or from the wires of their cages. Moreextraordinary still are the colies or mouse birds (Collinacapensis), which, like certain species of bats, are saidinvariably to sleep head downward, congregated intoglobular… … * Richard Owen on the osteology of the chimpanzee and orang-outang.Transactions of the Zoological Society, i, page 313. PLESIOSAURUS AND SNAKE BIRD-THEIR SIMILAR ATTITUDES. is found in the greatest perfection in the duckbill mole(Ornithorhynchus anativus) and the armadillos. It isalso possessed by…

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