WINGS AND FEET 
grouse and bob-white, but in the introduced 
ring pheasant I once watched a flock of young 
birds in flight whose only partly grown tails 
did not conceal the long legs of the birds that 
extended backwards. In side views of the 
splendid cock pheasants I have also seen the 
legs extended behind. 
In the case of the water birds that abound on 
the Labrador coast it is easy to see that the 
legs are carried behind, and this is the universal 
habit among all groups of this order. The 
puffin and sea pigeon with their brilliant scarlet 
feet make it plain as to their position in flight. 
The gulls habitually carry their feet behind, 
and in quick turns generally drop their feet 
pressed together, suggesting their use as a centre- 
board, for, as ina centre-board boat, quick turns 
with the board up are impossible, — with it 
down these turns become easy. Gulls have also 
a habit of sometimes drawing up one or both 
feet in front. Sometimes the feet carried 
forward show plainly, at other times they are 
buried all but the toes which appear as dark 
nobs, and again they are entirely concealed in 
the feathers of the breast so that the bird 
appears to be destitute of feet. Birds with one 
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