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FORM OF THE TOES OF BIRDS. 



which, however, the extremity is more rounded, the semicircular plate 

 more decurved, and concave above, as represented by fig. 6. In Rallus 



Fig. 7- Fig- 8. Fig. 9. 



elegans, fig. 7, and the Rails generally, the terminal plate is similar, but 

 narrow and rather curved upwards. It is in the genera Strepsilas, Cha- 

 radrius and Totanus, that the terminal plate, being narrower, more elon- 

 gated and more pointed, assumes more especially the semblance of a second 

 claw. The extremities of the middle toes of Totanus semipahnatus and 

 Charadrius Pluvialis, are represented by figs 8. and 9. 



Having now reached the point from which I started, according to the 

 approved method of reasoning in a circle, or if not, of exhibiting natural 

 objects in a circular arrangement, I take my leave, hoping that when I 

 again request your indulgence, I shall be enabled to present you with some- 

 thing equally curious, and perhaps better calculated to induce you to extend 

 your inquiries into the neglected parts of the structure of those objects, 

 whose investigation cannot fail to raise our minds towards the Being who 

 framed the beautiful and harmonious system of which we form a part. 



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