Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 283
the ordinary sense ofthe term. They cannot close their eyes, be-cause they have nothing to close over them ;and if they lie down on the bottom they are aptto get sand in their eyes. To a certain degree out of the water by strong, rapid they rest> some at niSht> and some PerhaPs in the… … THE FLYING GUNARD. movements of the tail. Then while in the air itis not so much a matter of flight as of falling.The large pectoral fins have not the action ofwings in propelling them forward, but of aparachute in sustaining them briefly in the airbefore they fall in a curve into the water again.…
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