. The bird; its form and function . Fig 41—Common Fowl, showing relation of the bony framework or skeletonto the contour of the body. Notice large eye, long and mobile neck theknee wholly within the body plumage, and the well-developed keel hintmgof ancestors with strong powers of flight. 1/4 natural size. 6? 66 The Bird hints of the way it originated. In the lowest of fish-Ukecreatures—the Amphioxus, a tiny animal, an inch or twoin length, living in the sand along our shores—there isa thread-like cord of a gelatinous substance (not carti-lage, however) extending down the back, known as thenot
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. The bird; its form and function . Fig 41—Common Fowl, showing relation of the bony framework or skeletonto the contour of the body. Notice large eye, long and mobile neck theknee wholly within the body plumage, and the well-developed keel hintmgof ancestors with strong powers of flight. 1/4 natural size. 6? 66 The Bird hints of the way it originated. In the lowest of fish-Ukecreatures—the Amphioxus, a tiny animal, an inch or twoin length, living in the sand along our shores—there isa thread-like cord of a gelatinous substance (not carti-lage, however) extending down the back, known as thenot