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CHAPTER X - - ... 62 



The power of flight — The aeroplane — Flying, 

 natural to the bird as the act of walking is to man — 

 Chicks of game birds — Birds teaching their young to 

 fly (?) — Cygnets learning to fly (?) — Swans and surround- 

 ings — Swans : " Exposers " — Birds' means of identify, 

 ing one another — In telepathic union — Telepathy not 

 essential : humanity — ^Telepathy essential : animal 

 world — Telepathy, capacity for responding to vibration 

 under sympathetic action — Sympathy, the one great 

 power throughout nature — Wings of birds structurally 

 alike — Wing of bird, best possible design. 



CHAPTER XI 71 



Flight of birds : characteristic — Wing action : same 

 in all birds — Observing flight from different points of 

 view — Heron : slow mover — Rook, lapwing, gulls : 

 birds of slow flight — Flight of black-headed gull — Flight 

 of pigeons — Summer-Snipe : characteristic flight of 

 sandpipers — Anatomy of bird's wing — Spur-Winged 

 plover — Feathering of the wing : valve principle — Up- 

 and-down action of the wing — How a bird rises from the 

 ground — Progression through the air — Undulating flight 

 Flying on a level plane — Undulating flight of small birds 

 — Woodpeckers : exponents of undulating flight — Green 

 woodpecker — " Coasting " : applied to bird-flight — 

 Partridges " coasting " — Nature as she is — ^Wings act as 

 brake against the air. 



CHAPTER XII - 86 



Insect flight — Construction of the wing : insects — 

 Coleoptera : jointed wing — Bombylius, humming-birds 

 and hover-flies — Flying backwards — Hawk-moths. 



CHAPTER XIII - - 92 



Sounds in nature — Few creatures incapable of utter- 

 ance — Jack-Snipe — Sounds that convey meanings — 

 Songs of birds — Glance " behind the veil " — Instru- 

 mental music — Antennae, organs for intercepting 

 sound — ^Woodpeckers using a sounding-board — " Bleat- 

 ing " of snipe — Corncrake and Nightjar : personal 

 note — Antics of birds — Subconscious manifestation. 



