Excerpt from Beautiful Birds, Vol. 2: Their Natural History; Including an Account of Their Structure, Habits, Nidification, Etc., Etc The birds now under consideration are distinguished from the Dentirostres by a very wide gape, together with a weak conformation of legs and feet; and further by their extraordinary powers of flight, and by feeding exclusively (the typical families at least) upon insects, which they capture during their flight. So little occasion have they to use their feet, that these. About ...
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Excerpt from Beautiful Birds, Vol. 2: Their Natural History; Including an Account of Their Structure, Habits, Nidification, Etc., Etc The birds now under consideration are distinguished from the Dentirostres by a very wide gape, together with a weak conformation of legs and feet; and further by their extraordinary powers of flight, and by feeding exclusively (the typical families at least) upon insects, which they capture during their flight. So little occasion have they to use their feet, that these. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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