 | John Hogg (publisher.) - 1878 - 536 Seiten
...to observe how it can wield such a length of lever with such feeble muscles as the thighs seem to be furnished with. At best, one should expect it to be...without that steady prop to support its steps, it must, theoretically, be liable to perpetual vacillations, and seldom able to preserve the true centre of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 Seiten
...to observe how it can wield such a length of lever with such feeble muscles as the thighs seem to be furnished with. At best one should expect it to be...but what adds to the wonder is, that it has no back to2. Now without that steady prop to support its steps it must be liable, in speculation, to perpetual... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 602 Seiten
...to observe how it can wield such a length of lever with such feeble muscles as the thighs seem to be furnished with. At best one should expect it to be...able to preserve the true centre of gravity. The old namo of Himantopus is taken from Pliny ; and, by an awkward metaphor, implies that the legs are as... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 536 Seiten
...wield such a length of lever with such feeble muscles as the LONH-LPGGED PLOVER. thighs seem to be furnished with. At best one should expect it to be...preserve the true centre of gravity. The old name of hitnantopus is taken from Pliny ; and, by an awkward metaphor, implies that the legs are as slender... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 Seiten
...the stilt-plover, he observed at once that it had no back toe, and must therefore be a bad walker. "Without that steady prop to support its steps, it...seldom able to preserve the true centre of gravity." There is a sly, humorous twinkle in this passage that our author seldom indulges in. White's interest... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 Seiten
...the stilt- plover, he observed at once that it had no back toe, and must therefore be a bad walker. "Without that steady prop to support its steps, it...seldom able to preserve the true centre of gravity." There is a sly, humorous twinkle in this passage that our author seldom indulges in. White's interest... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 Seiten
...the stilt- plover, he observed at once that it had no back toe, and must therefore be a bad walker. "Without that steady prop to support its steps, it...seldom able to preserve the true centre of gravity." There is a sly, humorous twinkle in this passage that our author seldom indulges in. White's interest... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 Seiten
...the stilt- plover, he observed at once that it had no back toe, and must therefore be a bad walker. "Without that steady prop to support its steps, it...seldom able to preserve the true centre of gravity." There is a sly, humorous twinkle in this passage that our author seldom indulges in. White's interest... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 Seiten
...the stilt-plover, he observed at once that it had no back toe, and must therefore be a bad walker. "Without that steady prop to support its steps, it...seldom able to preserve the true centre of gravity." There is a sly, humorous twinkle in this passage that our author seldom indulges in. White's interest... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 Seiten
...the stilt-plover, he observed at once that it had no back toe, and must therefore be a bad walker. "Without that steady prop to support its steps, it...seldom able to preserve the true centre of gravity." There is a sly, humorous twinkle in this passage that our author seldom indulges in. White's interest... | |
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If you should try the experiment in still larger birds, the disparity would still increase. It must be matter of great curiosity to see the stilt plover move ; to observe how it can wield such a length of lever with such feeble muscles as the thighs seem... 
