. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. Bill of the Pelecan. When it is long and weak, as in the Spoon- bill, which derives its name from the dilated extremity of the mandibles, it is only available to seize amid sand, mud, or water, very small Crustaceans, Mollusks, &c. (Jig. 147.) Fig. 147. BUI of the Jabiru. Some trenchant or sharp-edged bills are so compressed as to resemble the blade of a knife, and can only serve to seize small ob- jects, which are immediately swallowed : such is the form of the beak in the Auks, Puffins, Coulterneb, (where it has th
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. Bill of the Pelecan. When it is long and weak, as in the Spoon- bill, which derives its name from the dilated extremity of the mandibles, it is only available to seize amid sand, mud, or water, very small Crustaceans, Mollusks, &c. (Jig. 147.) Fig. 147. BUI of the Jabiru. Some trenchant or sharp-edged bills are so compressed as to resemble the blade of a knife, and can only serve to seize small ob- jects, which are immediately swallowed : such is the form of the beak in the Auks, Puffins, Coulterneb, (where it has the further peculiarity Bill of the Spoonbill. The more or less flattened bills of Ducks, the more conical ones of Geese and Swans, and that of the Flamingo,* of which the extremities * It is singular that it should ever have been supposed that the upper mandible was alone move- able, and the lower mandible perfectly immoveable, in the Flamingo, since precisely the contrary is the. 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 Todd, Robert Bentley, 1809-1860. London, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper
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