TAWNV EAGLE. 



I. ARCH^OPTERYX. 2. TAWNY EAGLE. 



The tail of Archseopteryx was made up of a number of separate bones, like a 

 lizard's tail, and each separate bone bore a pair of tail-feathers. In all other birds, 

 £.g. eagle, these separate bones have been shortened and fused into a single plate, 

 causing the tail-feathers to assume a fan-wise arrangement. 

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