. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of the various orders; with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . Fig. C-J. as in the Common Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, the bill islong, straight, and compound; the upper mandible curvedtowards the point, the lower compressed; the base inserted in asmall membrane which extends under the throat. In the backpart of the head is an additional bone (Fig. 63, a), attached in. Fig. 63. such a manner to the occiput as to admit of great expansion, whichpermits of its swallowing plaice and other flat fish of considerable 190 INTEO
. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of the various orders; with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . Fig. C-J. as in the Common Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, the bill islong, straight, and compound; the upper mandible curvedtowards the point, the lower compressed; the base inserted in asmall membrane which extends under the throat. In the backpart of the head is an additional bone (Fig. 63, a), attached in. Fig. 63. such a manner to the occiput as to admit of great expansion, whichpermits of its swallowing plaice and other flat fish of considerable 190 INTEODUCTOEY CHAPTEE. size. The Crane, Grus cinerea (Fig. 64), has the bill ratherlonger than the head, strong, straight, compressed, and pointed atthe extremity; the sides of the mandible deeply channelled withnostrils, and closed backwards by a thin membrane.
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