. 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 .. . more especially, by the synchronous action ofthe wings, which are used precisely in the same manner as inaerial flight, as I have frequently observed. A flock of Red-breasted ^lergansers, in pursuit of sand-eels, in one of the shal-low sandy bays of the Outer Hebrides, has frequently affordedme, from a concealed station on some prominence, a mo
. 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 .. . more especially, by the synchronous action ofthe wings, which are used precisely in the same manner as inaerial flight, as I have frequently observed. A flock of Red-breasted ^lergansers, in pursuit of sand-eels, in one of the shal-low sandy bays of the Outer Hebrides, has frequently affordedme, from a concealed station on some prominence, a most in-teresting sight. These birds seemed to move under the sur-face with almost as much velocity as in the air, and often roseto breathe at the distance of 200 yards from the spot at whichthey had dived. The Nervous System of birds, which, although less developedthan that of some of the mammifera, is greatly superior to thatof the other oviparous vertebrate animals, exhibits a remark-able uniformity in the structure and form of the brain andspinal marrow in the different tribes. Figs. 7, 8, and 9, re-present the brain of a sparrow, Passer domesticus, as seen fromabove, Fig. 7 ; from behind, Fig. 8 ; from beneath, Fig. 9, The Brain of a
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