Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 772
stiff; and by looking at a wing with the feath-ers in their places, you will find that they areplaced so that they overlap a little, like the slats ona window-blind. Each broad vane runs under thenarrow vane of the feather beside it, so that, whenthe wing is moved downward, each feather is… … QUAIL (SCKATCHERS). taken off from the lower surface of the wing, andbegins to act on the upper surface and to press thefeathers downward instead of upward. The broadvanes now have nothing to support them, and theybend down and allow the air to pass through the.wing, which is now like a blind with…
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