. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ral form is slender, the body ovate, the neck rathershort, the head small, narrow, ovato-oblong. The feet arerather long, and slender; the tarsus much compressed, ante-riorly covered with eight scutella, acute behind. Toes longish,slender, compressed; the first large, narrow beneath; thesecond and fourth about equal, the third much longer, unit
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ral form is slender, the body ovate, the neck rathershort, the head small, narrow, ovato-oblong. The feet arerather long, and slender; the tarsus much compressed, ante-riorly covered with eight scutella, acute behind. Toes longish,slender, compressed; the first large, narrow beneath; thesecond and fourth about equal, the third much longer, unitedto the fourth as far as the second joint. Claws long, slightlyarched, extremely compressed, tapering to a fine point, laterallygrooved, that of the hind toe much elongated. Plumage soft, on the upper parts the feathers rather distinct,on the lower blended ; the feathers generally ovate, of loosetexture, with a long slender plumule. Wings rather long, ofeighteen quills, of which nine are primary, the first four nearlyequal and longest; the secondaries very long, one of themnearly as long as the outer primaries when the wing is closed;the inner primaries and outer secondaries emarginate. Tailrather long, straight, emarginate, of twelve The Pipits are very intimately allied to the Larks, Alauda,on the one hand, and to the Wagtails, ISIotacilla, on the much more slender than the former, their affinity tothem, both in form and colouring, is so great that by the olderornithologists they were included in the same genus. On com-paring a Lark and a Pipit, it will be seen that the bill is formedon the same plan, that the feet agree in presenting the veryelongated hind claw, and that the wings are of the same form,one of the inner secondaries being much lengthened and ta-pering. Compared with a Wagtail, a Pipit presents similaranalogies ; its bill is almost precisely similar, its wings are ofthe same form, its feet differ very little, but its tail, although 180
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