. British birds. Birds. Fig. 7. Red-throated Diver: Bird No. 2 (Prince Charles Foreland), walking towards her nest. Note the angle of the body and the downwardly directed head. [Phctcgraphed by J. S. Huxley.) the hinder part of the body, then lifts the breast off the ground, then pushes the whole body forward. The unsup- ported fore-part tends to fall meanwhile, and so the breast ccmes down with a bump some distance ahead of where it was before. The general impression was similar to that made by the slow progression of a feeding rabbit; only of course here the whole action was much more awkwar
. British birds. Birds. Fig. 7. Red-throated Diver: Bird No. 2 (Prince Charles Foreland), walking towards her nest. Note the angle of the body and the downwardly directed head. [Phctcgraphed by J. S. Huxley.) the hinder part of the body, then lifts the breast off the ground, then pushes the whole body forward. The unsup- ported fore-part tends to fall meanwhile, and so the breast ccmes down with a bump some distance ahead of where it was before. The general impression was similar to that made by the slow progression of a feeding rabbit; only of course here the whole action was much more awkward, for to make the ccmparison fair, one would have to deprive the rabbit of its fore-legs'. 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 London, Witherby & Co
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