. The structure and life of birds . ■ Fig. 13.—Head of Archaeopteryx. This ancient bird was about the size of a rook. Histail was long, consisting of twenty vertebrse, at leastthe twelve hindmost bearing a pair of well-developed. Fig. 14.—Part of wing of , carpal bone ; d, i, 2, 3, digits ; m, metacarpal; k, radius ; u, ulna. feathers. His breast-bone seems to have been wing was strong and well-developed, the humerusremarkably big at the near end, the bones of the fore- D 3 36 THE STRUCTURE AND LIFE OF BIRDS chap 1 // / ^ /; / / mm

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