. Love's meinie : lectures on Greek and English birds, given before the University of Oxford . my feather (b, Fig. 1),and find that it is twisted as the sail of a windmill is,but more distinctly, so that you can always see the uppersnrfacfe of the feather at its root, and the under at itsend. Everv primary wing-feather, in the fine flyers, isthus twisted; and is best described as a sail striking withthe power of a scymitar, but w^ith the flat instead of theedge. 32. Further, you remember that on the edges of thebroad side of feathers you find always a series of undula-tions, irregularly sequen
. Love's meinie : lectures on Greek and English birds, given before the University of Oxford . my feather (b, Fig. 1),and find that it is twisted as the sail of a windmill is,but more distinctly, so that you can always see the uppersnrfacfe of the feather at its root, and the under at itsend. Everv primary wing-feather, in the fine flyers, isthus twisted; and is best described as a sail striking withthe power of a scymitar, but w^ith the flat instead of theedge. 32. Further, you remember that on the edges of thebroad side of feathers you find always a series of undula-tions, irregularly sequent, and lapping over each otherlike waves on sand. You mifi:ht at first imao-ine that this 30 loves meinie. appearance was owing to a slight ruffling or disorder ofthe filaments; but it is entirely normal, and, I doubt not,so constructed, in ord6r to ensure a redundance of ma-terial in the plume, so that no accident or pressure fromwind may leave a gap anywhere. How this redundanceis obtained you will see in a moment by bending any fea-ther the wrong way. Bend, for instance, this plume, b,.
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