. Fourteen weeks in zoology. Zoology. CLASS AVES: OEDEE LAMBLLIEOSTBES. 151 States, has a rich and variegated plumage. It seeks its food of larvae, weeds, and grains, upon the surface of the water only, its compressed body and large feet enabling it to thread its way among aquatic stems and to walk upon floating Mg. Uh. Mg. GaUinUla martlmca. Purple Gallinnle. \. FvRca americSna, Coot. plants. The Coot, with its lobed feet, is adapted to a more exclusively aquatic life, and hence, swimming and diving with great address, it is seldom seen on the land. ORDER LAMELLIROSTRES.* General Charac
. Fourteen weeks in zoology. Zoology. CLASS AVES: OEDEE LAMBLLIEOSTBES. 151 States, has a rich and variegated plumage. It seeks its food of larvae, weeds, and grains, upon the surface of the water only, its compressed body and large feet enabling it to thread its way among aquatic stems and to walk upon floating Mg. Uh. Mg. GaUinUla martlmca. Purple Gallinnle. \. FvRca americSna, Coot. plants. The Coot, with its lobed feet, is adapted to a more exclusively aquatic life, and hence, swimming and diving with great address, it is seldom seen on the land. ORDER LAMELLIROSTRES.* General Characteristics.—The Geese, Ducks, etc., have palmate feet and lamellate bills, with corresponding laciniate processes on the sides of a fleshy tongue, ending in a horny tip. I AMFI ! IRrmTRF*^ < LONO l tibia mostly bare. Pfaffinicopteridae, Flamingo- i LEGS SHORT, tibia fkatherbd. Anatidse, Duck. PhcenioopteridEe.—The Flamingo,] when feeding, lays the upper part of its bill next the ground, and with its feet stirs up the mud for small fish, insects, and seeds, which it * The old order Natatores (B^yimmerB) has been broken np by recent omitholo- gists into Ave distinct orders, viz: Lamellirostres, SteganopBdes, LongipenneB, PygopodeB and Sphenisci. t The flamingo, with its heron-like legs but full-webbed toes, eaBCB the transition from the waders to the swimmers. So many of its characteristics are common to both, that it has been tossed back and forth from the days of Liunseus to the present, nor is it certain where it will be allowed to Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Steele, Joel Dorman, 1836-1886. New York, Chicago [etc. ] A. S. Barnes & Company
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