Beautiful Birds, Vol. 2: Their Natural History; Including an Account of Their Structure, Habits, Nidification, Etc., Etc (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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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.

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