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Fig. 3.—Townsend piper, an example of a modern flying bird.

In the evolution of the birds we see many changes, such as that from the long vertebrated tail of the reptile-bird, the archæopteryx, to the consolidated, fan-like tail of the modern bird, and other marked contrasts.

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