. The natural history of birds . VNTiite-eyed Pochard. shoulder much more exclusively supported from thesternum than is the case in the wading birds. Theabove figures of the sternal apparatus of the CONCLUSION. 407 nyroca pochard, or white-eyed duck, may be takenas a specimen. In this volume we have taken a rapid glance atthe general structure of birds, and those characterswhich distinguish them from the other classes ofvertebrated animals; and we have entered rathermore minutely into those peculiarities of their threegrand structures, the bill, the feet, and the wings,upon which, singly or jo
. The natural history of birds . VNTiite-eyed Pochard. shoulder much more exclusively supported from thesternum than is the case in the wading birds. Theabove figures of the sternal apparatus of the CONCLUSION. 407 nyroca pochard, or white-eyed duck, may be takenas a specimen. In this volume we have taken a rapid glance atthe general structure of birds, and those characterswhich distinguish them from the other classes ofvertebrated animals; and we have entered rathermore minutely into those peculiarities of their threegrand structures, the bill, the feet, and the wings,upon which, singly or jointly, the leading differencesof their habits in a great measure depend. It wouldnow remain to investigate their relations to the restof nature in locality and in season ; but as this partof the subject involves the knowledge also of thenatural history of localities and of seasons, it is of toogeneral a nature for being made a specific portion ofthe natural history of birds, though they cannot beknown to the full extent without
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