. The bird book. Birds. 86 STRUCTURE AND COMPARISON. Otliers say that the bird tiies like a kite, and this is pajtly right. The bird's body does act very much like the string of the kite, serving as a weight to hold it steady. But the kite cannot lift the boy at the end of the string; if it could, the kite would fall just as we see it do when the string breaks. That laughable story for boys, ''Phaeton Rogers," tells us how Phaeton made his great kite draw his wagon down the road, and how the kite ran away with him while the whole town raced after to find out what the matter was. Now we kn
. The bird book. Birds. 86 STRUCTURE AND COMPARISON. Otliers say that the bird tiies like a kite, and this is pajtly right. The bird's body does act very much like the string of the kite, serving as a weight to hold it steady. But the kite cannot lift the boy at the end of the string; if it could, the kite would fall just as we see it do when the string breaks. That laughable story for boys, ''Phaeton Rogers," tells us how Phaeton made his great kite draw his wagon down the road, and how the kite ran away with him while the whole town raced after to find out what the matter was. Now we know that the kite would not fly at all unless it could keep a taut string; and the faster the wagon moved the nearer it would be to outrunning the kite, so that it is hardly probable that Phaeton's wagon would travel as fast as the story says. Did you never underrun your kite and bring it down even. Fig. 18. Gulls Flvixu — Fkom Instantaneous Photograph. (After Marey.) (The dotted line shows successive positions of wrist joint in flight.) when there was a good breeze ? Now in most instances a bird outruns the breeze, and he has no stationary weight; for his body, the weight, travels as fast as the wings. So we see that a bird does not resemble the kite. More nearly does the bird resemble the swimmer, who supports himself in the water by striking out with his arms, pushing him- self up and forward by the resistance of the water to his stroke. The bird rises and moves ahead by the forward and downward sweep of his wings, falls a little in air as he again raises them, and once more moves ahead and up with the new 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 Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 1865-1946. Boston, Heath
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