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1 5 | Animals which, like men and birds, have the superior part 2 10| perhaps be raised about birds. How, it may be said, can 3 10| of the "scale-wing"", in birds at the base of the wing, 4 10| And so flying insects, and birds (Schizoptera) whose tails 5 10| domestic cocks, and generally birds that hardly fly, cannot 6 10| bees and wasps. Further, birds that are not made for flight 7 10| flight described. Among birds, the peacock’s tail is at 8 10| because it is shed. But birds are in general at the opposite 9 10| among them. (These are the birds with curved talons, for 10 11| succeed in walking erect. Birds are hunchbacked yet stand 11 12| at rest, and that men and birds, both bipeds, bend their 12 12| and in like manner also birds bend theirs. The reason 13 15| 15~Birds bend their legs in the same 14 15| nearly the same. That is, in birds the wings are a substitute 15 15| now we survey generally birds and winged insects, and 16 15| we see it to be both in birds and insects. And this same 17 15| also among fishes. Among birds the wings are attached obliquely; 18 15| medium, fish in the water, birds in the air.~Of oviparous 19 17| shape distorted. Web-footed birds swim with their feet; because 20 17| too, not like the rest of birds in the centre of their body, 21 18| broad similarity between birds and fishes in the organs 22 18| the organs of locomotion. Birds have their wings on the 23 18| two pectoral fins; again, birds have legs on their under 24 18| and near the pectorals. Birds, too, have a tail and fish