The Gardens And Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated volume 2
The Gardens And Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated volume 2
Edward Turner Bennett
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Other birds, it is true, possess the same power to a certain extent; but in none of them is it carried to so high a THE CHINESE STARLING. 243 degree of perfection, or has it equal influence on their general habits. It is not merely by habitually perching upon trees that the Insessorial birds proclaim that such is their proper station in nature. They, almost without exception, build their nests among the branches or in the hollow trunks ; and a very large proportion of them subsist entirely upon... buds and fruits, or upon the insects which they capture in the fissures of the bark. The feet of all, (with one or two trifling exceptions, which but confirm the general rule, ) are specially fitted for such a mode of existence ; while those of one exten- sive tribe absolutely incapacitate them for any other habitation. The fact that each of the Orders of Birds has its peculiar station on the surface of the globe, and that there exists a perfect analogy between these several stations and the series of their natural affinities, has been illustrated by Mr.
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