Image: The bird, its form and function (1906) (14755679525)

Description: Identifier: birditsformfunct07beeb (find matches) Title: The bird, its form and function Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Beebe, William, 1877-1962 Subjects: Birds Birds Publisher: New York : Henry Holt Contributing Library: Internet Archive Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Fig. 293.—Owl gripping a piece of meat. perching-bird arrangement. The talons of the ospreyare immensely strong, and the scales on the soles of itsfeet and toes are hardened and roughened to such a degreethat they are almost spike-like. A more efficient fish-trap cannot be imagined. The Golden Eagle has a splendidfoot, with great curved talons, which, when they have Feet and Legs 375 once clasped an object, never let go. It required twomen and two pairs of the thickest buckskin gloves toobtain Fig. 295, and even then the foot could be heldstill for only a moment. As the photograph shows, the Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 294.—Foot of Snowy Owl. leg is feathered all the way down to the toes in this eagle,for some unexplained reason, while in almost all its rela-tives, as in the Bald Eagle, the legs are covered withscales. The feet and toes of the Harpy Eagle, Fig. 204,are probably the most terrible of their kind in the world: 376 The Bird certainly they are the strongest. When once they haveclosed on an object, and remain clutched, nothing shortof severing the birds leg will avail to loosen the fearful Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The bird, its form and function (1906) (14755679525)
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