The Animal Kingdom : Arranged After Its Organization, Forming a Natural History of Animals And An Introduction to Comparative Anatomy
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utterly deprived nf the function of fh^bt, and has accordingly its wings reduced to exactly that size which is most efficient of all for suliaqualic progression : they are not larger than very moderate-sized fins, and the limb-bones are considerably wi'ij^htier and le^.s solid than those of its coni;ei',.';- ; !jut we are not aware that the skeleti.m makes anv approach in form to that of the PALMIPEDES. As a particularly rare visitant, tliis f Peiigiiiu. Penjuiiis of the soutliern liemispliero,... wliich are very distinct from the ,' ulis. species is allowed a place in tire British Fauna.] Tlie genus of The Penguins (.Ijitmodytes, Forster) — Is even less capable of flying than that of the Auks. Tlieir little wings, covered v\-ifh luere vestiges of feathers, which at the first glance reseuihle scales; their feet, placed farther back than in any other bird [the Grebes and Loons alone exec(ited,] only support them by bearing on the tarsus, which is widened like the sole of the foot of a quadruped, and in which are found three bones soldered together at their extremities.
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