. Love's meinie : lectures on Greek and English birds, given before the University of Oxford . Fig. 7 ronghly represents the upper surface of the mainfeathers of the wing closed. The secondaries are foldedover the primaries ; and the primaries shut up close, withtheir outer edges parallel, or nearly so. Fig. 8 roughlyshows the outline of the bones, in this position, of one ofthe larger pigeons.^ 75. Then Fig. 9 is (always sketched in the roughestway) the outer, Fig. 10 the inner, surface of a seagullswing in this position. Next, Fig. 11 shows the tops of thefour lowest feathers in Fig. 9, in m
. Love's meinie : lectures on Greek and English birds, given before the University of Oxford . Fig. 7 ronghly represents the upper surface of the mainfeathers of the wing closed. The secondaries are foldedover the primaries ; and the primaries shut up close, withtheir outer edges parallel, or nearly so. Fig. 8 roughlyshows the outline of the bones, in this position, of one ofthe larger pigeons.^ 75. Then Fig. 9 is (always sketched in the roughestway) the outer, Fig. 10 the inner, surface of a seagullswing in this position. Next, Fig. 11 shows the tops of thefour lowest feathers in Fig. 9, in mere outline ; a separate(pulled off, so that they can be set side by side), b shutup close in the folded wing, c oj^ened in the spread wing. * I fiiid even tMs mere outline of anatomical structure so interferewith the temper in which I wish my readers to think, that I shall with-draw it in my complete edition. 68 76. And now, if you will yourselves watch a few birdsin flicrht, or opening and closing their wings to prunethem, you will soon, know as much as is needful for our Fig. art purposes ; and, which is far more desirable, feel howvery little we know, to any purpose, of even the familiarcreatmes that are our companions. LOVE S MEINIE. 69 Even what we have seen to-day * is more than appearsto have been noticed by the most careful painters of thegreat schools; and you will continually fancy that I aminconsistent with myself in pressing you to learn, betterthan they, the anatomy of birds, while I violently andconstantly urge you to refuse the knowledge of the anato-my of men. But you will find, as my system developesitself, that it is absolutely consistent throughout. I dont Fig. 9.
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