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And, for one question, relative to this — the 

 balance of a bird standing, 

 not gripping — is to be thought 

 of. Taking a typical profile of 

 bird-form in its abstract, with 

 beak, belly, and foot, horizontal 

 Fig. 12. {Y\^. 12), the security of the 



standing, (supposing atomic weight equal 



Fig. 13 a. 



through the bird's body, and the will, in 

 the ancle, of iron,) is the same as of an 

 inverted cone, between the dotted lines from 

 the extremities of the foot to those of the 

 body ; and, of course, with a little grip of the 

 foot or hind claw, the bird can be safe in 

 almost any position it likes. Nevertheless, 



