10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ZYGODACTYLIC»
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The British Cyclopædia of Natural History: Combining a ...
Besides this, we have seen that the zygodactylic have the feet differently modified
, and consequently adapted for different kinds of motion upon the trees ; some of
the woodpeckers, and also of the genus under consideration, having only three ...
Charles Frederick Partington, 1837
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The british cyclopedia of natural history
Besides this, we have seen that the zygodactylic have the feet differently modified
, and consequently adapted for different kinds of motion upon the trees ; some of
the woodpeckers, and also of the genus under consideration, having only three ...
Charles f. partington, 1837
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The British Cyclopæedia of Natural History: Combining a ...
A genus, or perhaps rather a sub-genus, of Zygodactylic, or yoke-footed birds,
belonging to the great natural family of the parrots and analogous genera ; and in
the gracefulness of their forms and the richness of their colours among the most ...
Charles Frederick Partington, 1835
Adaptations to their arboreal life-style include stiffened tail feathers, which act as
a brace during tree-climbing, a strengthened skull, an elongated tongue, and
zygodactylic feet. Flight is rapid, wings sometimes whirring audibly, but usually ...
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The British cyclopaedia of the arts, sciences, history, ...
TOUCAN (Ramphastros). A genus of zygodactylic or climbing birds, naving the
following characters : the bill cellular, very large, and much longer than the head,
broader than the forehead, and higher than the profile of the head, nearly straight
...
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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh
They remind one of the zygodactylic feet of the Climbing-Birds; and this character
, taken along with the existence of the rete mira- bile of the limbs (the tortuous
and anastomosing plexuses of vessels, which exist in this animal, as well as in ...
Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, 1863
The term probably comes from whittle, to hack or cut wood. In some parts of
Hertfordshire and in Essex the bird is Whetile, which comes very near to this. The
Woodpeckers are zygodactylic, or yoke-toed birds, two of the toes being turned
back, ...
Henry Gardiner Adams, 1863
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Beautiful birds: their natural history, ed. by R. Tyas
... the trees that it punctures) and they have therefore obtained the appellation of "
Sap-suckers ; " but this opinion appears to be erroneous. The three-toed species
exhibit an exception to the general zygodactylic form of the Woodpecker's foot.
John Cotton (F.Z.S.), Robert Tyas, 1855
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The British Naturalist, Or, Sketches of the More Interesting ...
These reversible toes enable the birds to walk more easily upon the ground than
those which have the complete zygodactylic feet; at the same time that they can'
climb or perch better than those birds in which the three toes act permanently ...
On blowing them, the first two proved to be about half-incubated, and the
zygodactylic structure of foot was clearly visible ; the others were fresh. I may add,
that on taking each of the Arabs to my box of skins, each separately selected a ...
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So parrot toes would also be zygodactylic? (But my memory is that they're fleshier/thicker and that the short toes are way shorter than the long ones.) Oh, I think I ... «ScienceBlogs, Jun 10»
