. The Audubon magazine . After a while a verycomplete specimen was discovered, andwonderful to tell,it had a long taillike a lizard, andthe feathers grow-ing on either sideof it. Wx&Archcc-opteryx was a landbird and had feetlike a perchingbird, and the bodywas covered withtrue feathers, butin other respectsit was more like alizard with itslong tail andtoothed wings werenot very long,and it is possi-ble that it couldnot fly upward,but only like theflying squirrels ona downward in-cline, and as thefingers of itswings were freefrom each otherand armed withsharp claws, itmust have beena g
. The Audubon magazine . After a while a verycomplete specimen was discovered, andwonderful to tell,it had a long taillike a lizard, andthe feathers grow-ing on either sideof it. Wx&Archcc-opteryx was a landbird and had feetlike a perchingbird, and the bodywas covered withtrue feathers, butin other respectsit was more like alizard with itslong tail andtoothed wings werenot very long,and it is possi-ble that it couldnot fly upward,but only like theflying squirrels ona downward in-cline, and as thefingers of itswings were freefrom each otherand armed withsharp claws, itmust have beena good climber. And so we must admitthat whatever may be thought of Darwinstheory of evolution, there is at any rate nota great dividing line which separates thein its backbone, it had quite an aristocratic reptiles from the birds, and that in thisset of teeth, for each tooth was firmly set^ case the missing links are really just whatin its own socket. Darwin foretold—creatures midway be- tween the birds and A still more remarkable fossil bird called 142 Cha j/n s / f ^onderfh I JouIncys. Perhaps the generally accei)ted theory the earth, this view is reconcilable with athat change of life types from age to age great many of the facts, and generally ac-is due to accidental variation, or to the in- cepted by the learned. r>ut some boys now
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