. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . Toes furnifhed on their fides with broad plain membranes.\_Pes lohatus, Lin.] KXXIV TECHNICAL TERMS. Foot of the Corvorantf. *^^ y -•<... \ Shewing all the four toes connected by webs. c«.-«<-<«»^»-» Semi-palmated, \^femt-palmatus, when the middleof the webs reach only about half the length of the toes. Ciliated, [Jingua cUtata, Lin.] when the tongue is edgedwith fine briftles, as in Ducks. Nostrils linear,—when they are extended lengthwife ina line with the bill, as in Divers, &c. Nostrils pervious,—when they are ope
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . Toes furnifhed on their fides with broad plain membranes.\_Pes lohatus, Lin.] KXXIV TECHNICAL TERMS. Foot of the Corvorantf. *^^ y -•<... \ Shewing all the four toes connected by webs. c«.-«<-<«»^»-» Semi-palmated, \^femt-palmatus, when the middleof the webs reach only about half the length of the toes. Ciliated, [Jingua cUtata, Lin.] when the tongue is edgedwith fine briftles, as in Ducks. Nostrils linear,—when they are extended lengthwife ina line with the bill, as in Divers, &c. Nostrils pervious,—when they are open, and may befeen through from fide to fide, as in Gulls, &c.
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