Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 323
l. In coming to rest a wild duck, for ex-ample, drops its feet and stretches its webbed toesapart in a conspicuous fashion, just as a meadow-lark expands and drops its tail. Herons andsnipe make a similar use of their legs, the lengthof the latter probably making up for the lack ofwebbed toes in… … A SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER. One of the common instances in which the tail-feathers are lengthened as ornaments. form far oftener than the wings. With manybirds the tail is really a hindrance to flight. In Africa Mr. Roosevelt observed that the long-tailed male whydah finches were slower than…
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