. British birds. Birds. 164 BRITISH BIRDS. these circumstances I have frequently seen quite a number of the birds come to grief on the rocks within thirty j^ards of starting. Most of tliese, though somewhat dazed by the impact, flutter and claw their way on to the top of some big boulder, and after a moment's pause again dive forth, but not infrequently with no better result. The first failure is, I believe, often caused by their paying too much attention to and looking behind at whatever startled them, instead of gauging their proper FIGURE 1.—RAISING THE WINGS PREPARATORY TO GOING. {
. British birds. Birds. 164 BRITISH BIRDS. these circumstances I have frequently seen quite a number of the birds come to grief on the rocks within thirty j^ards of starting. Most of tliese, though somewhat dazed by the impact, flutter and claw their way on to the top of some big boulder, and after a moment's pause again dive forth, but not infrequently with no better result. The first failure is, I believe, often caused by their paying too much attention to and looking behind at whatever startled them, instead of gauging their proper FIGURE 1.—RAISING THE WINGS PREPARATORY TO GOING. {Photographed by Bentley Beetham.) The raising and unfolding of the wings is worthy of a httle consideration. The former usually takes place not after, but previous to, the diving or springing forward, while generally the whole " foot " is at rest upon the rock. Of course, when suddenly alarmed birds sometimes cast themselves from the cliff without first raising their wings, and in consequence fall 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 London, Witherby & Co
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