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and protect tlieni ; but of these I can take no notice at 

 present. All that I want you to understand is the action 

 of the two main masses, as the wing is opened and closed, 



Fig. 7. 



Fig. 7 roughly represents the upper surface of the maio 

 feathers of the wing closed. The secondaries are folded 

 over the primaries ; and the primaries shut up close, with 

 their outer edges parallel, or nearly so. Fig. 8 roughly 

 shows the outline of the bones, in this position, of one of 

 tlie larger pigeons.* 



75. Then Fig. 9 is (always sketched in the i-oughest 

 way) the outer, Fig. 10 the inner, surface of a seagull's 

 wing in this position. Next, Fig. 11 shows the tops of the 

 four lowest feathers in Fig. 9, in mere outline ; a separate 

 (pulled off, so that they can be set side b}' side), b shut 

 up close in the folded wing, c opened in the spread wing. 



* I fiiid even this mere outline of anatomical structure so interfere 

 with the temper in which I wish my readers to thiuk, that I shall with- 

 draw it in my complete edition. 



