| 单词 | webbed foot |
| 例句 | Only the oversized, brown webbed feet left something to be desired in their design. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z With his lanky legs and webbed feet, he looked like a tomatillo with toothpicks jutting out of it. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The one dark red leg that they could see ended in a webbed foot and three powerful, taloned toes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His face bore little resemblance to the one on the Wall of Fame, with little webbed feet around a pair of eyes that looked like brittle coals. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It has a shorter nose than a seal, small webbed feet instead of flippers, and fur that is thicker and much more beautiful. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll never smoke cigarettes or eat pork or birds with webbed feet,” she murmured as she swabbed out the guinea-pig cages. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for the wet solidity under his webbed feet, he was living in nothing—a solid nothing, like chaos. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "They had discovered an animal that lived in water, had webbed feet and tasted like fish," Wong wrote. The strange history of how the Catholic Church declared beaver to be a fish — at least during Lent 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Standing flat on golden, webbed feet, it turns its head to stare with goosey, goggle-eyed curiosity. Art Review: When Enamel Wares Adorned China?s Imperial Courts 2011-02-17T21:29:31Z We see Alvar’s beginnings in Nordic Classicism, including a 1924 metal table with webbed feet that evokes both Dr. Seuss and a Norse gnome. In ‘Artek and the Aaltos,’ Caution — Sleek, Modernist Curves Ahead 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z They are duck-billed, egg-laying, semi-aquatic mammals with poisonous spurs on their webbed feet: the Australian platypus is so weird that early European zoologists thought it must be an elaborate hoax. Platypus milk: unlikely weapon in fight against superbugs 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The rough concentric circles on its shell looked like small topographical renderings of a cluster of hills; its tiny webbed feet displayed miniscule nails shorter than thumbtacks. In Chesapeake Bay, Poplar Island is a man-made miracle 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z This three-foot long reptile was shaped like a chubby miniature whale, but with an elongated trunk, webbed feet and a long, narrow snout. Ancient filter-feeding reptile had a freaky similarity with modern whales 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The webbed feet of platypuses are an adaptation for swimming. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The platypus is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal that is native to Australia, measures a foot or two, and has webbed feet and a duck-like bill. Man Accused of Kidnapping Platypus Is Charged in Australia 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The webbed feet of a duck help it swim. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The researchers found that the wings and webbed feet combined would have been enough to propel the animal from a resting position. Little Pterosaur Could Have ‘Pole-Vaulted’ into Flight from the Water 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The boats parked within close range of a scrubby berm dotted with nests and the white-capped heads of pelicans warming their eggs between their webbed feet. Pelicans’ paradise on Smith Island, Md. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z With its long sensitive nose and large webbed feet, it is one of only two remaining desman species in the world. Dragonflies disappearing as wetlands are lost 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z “That’s a habitat where a bird with webbed feet doesn’t belong, and they were thriving,” Sharp says. Do Canada geese still fly south for winter? Yes, but it's complicated 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z When last we checked on the platypus, it was confounding our expectations of mammals with its webbed feet, duck-like bill and laying of eggs. Platypuses Glow Under Blacklight. We Have No Idea Why. 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The paleontologists used a process known as laser-stimulated fluorescence to detect the fossilized tissues, including a wing membrane and webbed feet. Little Pterosaur Could Have ‘Pole-Vaulted’ into Flight from the Water 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Last year, over 275,000 people came to see the swimming iguanas, giant tortoises and birds with webbed feet the color of blue cotton candy. Pandemic upends life on isolated, idyllic Galapagos Islands 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Once he gets his tiny webbed feet covered in paint, he’s off and sometimes tough to keep up with. Akron Zoo home to a budding art colony of critters 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z They do not have webbed feet, and their fur becomes waterlogged if they are forced to remain in the water for long. Wildlife Photographer of the Year: stories behind classic portraits 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z And so, on this first day, 17 of 33 of the juveniles went to the queen and remained unmarked, the others went to the guilds and were awarded a numbered ring on their webbed feet. Britain’s queen is counting her swans in a ritual with much poop and circumstance 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Cormorants, for instance, boast hooked beaks and large, webbed feet which allow them to dive below the surface and snipe fish. Watch a Bold Little Bird Dive-Bomb the World’s Largest Fish 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Dr. Godefroit said the dinosaur lacked webbed feet, so it is unlikely that it swam like a swan, gracefully gliding on the water’s surface while feverishly paddling below. This Duck-Like Dinosaur Could Swim. That Isn’t the Strangest Thing About it. 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z And, as in many horror movies, the heroine’s mind and body become riddled with self-doubt and self-disgust, presenting her with images of blood and ugliness, feathers and weird webbed feet. Tarred and feathered: the blackest visions of Swan Lake 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z The ducks inhabit two worlds, heads and backs above water, bellies and webbed feet below, with the ghostly orange goldfish. The Great Hunger and the Randomness of the World 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Compounding their digestive distress, a booby, ignoring the limitations of its webbed feet, had crash-landed on the deck, barring the men’s access to the head. The Secrets of the Wave Pilots 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Jan Roger Lerbukt was almost born with webbed feet, his massive hands bear the scars of many years at sea in rough, dangerous conditions. How does Norway's relationship with the EU work? - BBC News 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The regal white bird paddles along on its huge, black, webbed feet, each tiny feather rippling with the water. Where Audubon Found Repose, Sprayed-On Specimens Alight 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Swimmers tend not to sprout webbed feet, nor typists extra fingers. Walmart's $150 tablet aimed at children is missing the point 2013-07-19T10:45:48Z These webbed feet are the principal agents by which the birds propel themselves through the water, upon the surface of which most of them pass a great portion of their time. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z You notice that, unlike those stilt-walkers, the herons, the flamingoes have webbed feet. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z There they floundered about till they learned to paddle with their black webbed feet. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z It may be known by its partially webbed feet. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z They are, however, wading birds and their webbed feet are of use in supporting them on the soft mud of shallow lagoons or bays where they search for the favorite food of small mollusks. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z From end to end, from border to border, the fenny expanse roars with discharge and echo, and nowhere within it is there peace or rest for the sole of a webbed foot. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z They were a pretty brown colour, with thick, somewhat bristly coats, in form like a large guinea-pig, with short legs, and webbed feet. Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay 2011-06-28T02:00:11.447Z He raised himself and tried to fly; he waddled several steps on his wide webbed feet. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Its webbed feet and long upward turned bill are features by which it may always be known. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z Without logic and a sense of the ludicrous a man is religious as certainly as without webbed feet a bird has the land habit. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z This bird has long been celebrated for the manner in which it passes over the waves, pattering with its webbed feet and flapping its wings so as to keep itself just above the surface. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.207Z They prey upon fish, which they pursue under water, making use partly of their wings, but chiefly of their legs and webbed feet in their subaqueous progression. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z He saw the soft black soil on the edge of the pond stamped with countless impressions of webbed feet. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z It clutched the ground with its broad webbed feet as it crawled forward. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The figure has one foot slightly raised, and set upon a duck, as is quite plain from the general form of the bird, though the webbed feet are much worn away, and the head gone. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z She could see their strong little pointed tails too, and their webbed feet with a stout claw on each toe. Among the Pond People 2011-01-21T03:00:13.507Z At break of day he summoned his host, the farmer, the cook, and the cook's boy, ordered them to slay, pluck, and roast directly all that bore comb or webbed foot. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z It has a long body, short, stout legs, and webbed feet; the tail is long, thick at the base, and tapering to a point. Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture The latter is about the size of a domestic pigeon, but has webbed feet and a hooked bill, and is the only wild bird having variegated plumage, no two being marked alike. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document Some averred, that the queen had legs like a goat, grown over with wool; others swore, that instead of human feet she had webbed feet, like a goose. Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity Any one who endeavoured to invade the solitude of his suburban abode must have "webbed feet and been able to croak and spawn!" Lafcadio Hearn "No, you don't," she answered him sternly, retreating before a sudden forward scramble of the broad webbed feet. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road All have round, sloping snouts, robust forearms, long, unwebbed fingers, and large webbed feet. A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group It walked on webbed feet that angled outward, had short flippers, set low on a body covered with coarse hair that might have been feathers, and was armed with long, vicious claws. Big Stupe Gerry could have caught him easily, for the webbed feet of the Venusian did not make for great speed, but he was content to let him go. The Golden Amazons of Venus A little noiseless leap! and a dripping musk-rat with long flat tail and webbed feet scrabbles up the moss-covered tree towards the stupid bird. The Story of the Trapper His tiny webbed feet clutched at the cloth as he buried his face against her leg. Narakan Rifles, About Face! He had noticed little tracks of five-toed, webbed feet on the thin drift of powdery snow that led to the bank above this pool. The Wilderness Trail They have a large bright orange gular sac, a long, hooked bill, and small slightly webbed feet. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. They tramped steadily onward through the dust in silence except for the dull slap of the webbed feet of the reptile men and the jingle of their equipment. The Golden Amazons of Venus Besides, the trapper observed tracks, tiny leaf-like tracks as of little webbed feet, over the soft clay of the marsh bank. The Story of the Trapper He lived in an old picture-book, and would nowadays be considered quite out of fashion by up-to-date ostriches, having webbed feet and an improper number of toes. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Last of all, he had seen a smooth incline worn by these webbed feet down to the brink of the pool. The Wilderness Trail Phalaropes are small Plover-like birds, but with lobate webbed feet, similar to those of the Grebes and Coots. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Then the slapping tread of the guards' webbed feet died away and he was left alone. The Golden Amazons of Venus The quills of the albatross make excellent pipe stems, and the skin of the webbed feet is used for tobacco pouches. Six Letters From the Colonies The otter is a large water weasel with close, dense, shiny fur and webbed feet. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 Mr. and Mrs. Grebe have very curiously webbed feet, looking more like a horse-chestnut leaf with three lobes than anything else. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Although they do not have webbed feet, they swim on or under water with the greatest of ease and rapidity, using their wings as paddles. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. "Nonsense!" said Snowdrop, as, with an eye dark and bright as that of Betty, she glanced at her own orange legs and webbed feet. Dick and His Cat and Other Tales When in the water, it can open and shut its webbed feet like a fan, and so can swim rapidly. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks The beaver is known by its great size--weighing from twenty-five to fifty pounds--its chestnut color, darker on the crown, its webbed feet, and its broad, flat, naked, scaly tail. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 The platypus is covered with fur like an otter, and has four webbed feet, like those of a duck, and a black duck-like bill. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia It is a largish bird with webbed feet, long thin neck, and spear-like bill. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young There they would sit, rocking on the little waves or swimming about with their red webbed feet. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds When they spy some edible bit floating beneath them, down they drop until their tiny webbed feet just rest upon the water. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year We can readily understand why they are thus formed, for their webbed feet answer the purpose of oars to propel them over the water. Our Bird Comrades Birds that swim have webbed feet, which act as oars for pushing them through the water. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Represent to yourself an enormous duck with a neck like a swan, a bill straight, tapering, and longer than the head, webbed feet, and widely spreading and well-feathered wings, and then know the anhinga. Adventures of a Young Naturalist And everybody knows that webbed feet are the best for swimming. The Tale of Chirpy Cricket It is about the size of a tern, with short legs, webbed feet, and extremely long, pointed wings. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Their webbed feet are placed very far back, close to the stumpy tail, and so the long body has to stand very straight up in order to balance itself. Chatterbox, 1906 He let out a squeal, dropped his line in the mud and bounced up to the surface, dancing like a dervish on his broad webbed feet as he stared in unabashed curiosity. The Native Soil Another, the platypus, or duck-bill, has the bill and webbed feet of a duck and the body and tail of a beaver. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania It had an oddly-shaped beak, webbed feet, and a funny great tuft of feathers for a tail. Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo One of the species is aquatic, and has webbed feet. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America With their strong wings and great webbed feet, they can flap faster over the surface than a canoe can follow them. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Notwithstanding their webbed feet, they managed to perch securely among the branches, many of which were so heavily freighted, that they bent almost to the ground beneath their load. The Island Home Each was sewing a piece of thin waterproof cloth upon a pair of white woolen gloves; so that the fingers, when outspread, had the appearance of the webbed foot of a frog. The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War A pair of large webbed feet were seen slowly paddling above them, and beyond them the outline of a bird’s body could be traced. Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo Their broad webbed feet shew that they frequent the water, and in fact, they are not only found in rivers and lakes of most European countries, but at sea. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals With their webbed feet they never roosted in trees. The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales Three animals, about the size of a musk-rat, with webbed feet, and the color of mice, came scrambling forth and scampered away for the shelter of the rocks. Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys Gerald told me that there are various species of opossums, one of which lives in the water and has webbed feet, but they are mostly found on trees. The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela Whereupon the duck blushed, and spread one of her webbed feet before her face, and looked quite pleased at the compliment. Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn Its peculiar legs are wide and thin; its webbed feet are so large that it can swim with amazing rapidity. Three Boys in the Wild North Land It plumage, except a few of the wing feathers, is white; its long, hard beak, which Is very powerful, is of a pale yellow colour; and its short, webbed feet are flesh coloured. The Castaways She could hear its webbed feet going pad pad over the slippery stanes. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton By means of his webbed feet he could swim as easily as Mr. Crow could fly. The Tale of Timothy Turtle But, being a heavy bird, its flight is very exhausting, and it appears to have more confidence in its webbed feet than its wings. Chatterbox, 1905. The webbed feet of the seal and ornithorhynchus typify the period when the hands and feet of the human embryo are as yet only partly subdivided into fingers and toes. Plain Facts for Old and Young I admired the curious animal, with its rounded head ornamented with short ears, its round eyes, and white whiskers like those of a cat, and its webbed feet and nails and tufted tail. The Literary World Seventh Reader "The same broad yellow bill, the same short yellow legs, and the same webbed feet." Among the Farmyard People In one skeleton claw it fumbled a rod and with this it now traced certain symbols in the dust before Varta's webbed feet. The Gifts of Asti She was near to tears when he stooped and knelt in the snow to tighten a thong slipping from one webbed foot. Then I'll Come Back to You Bobo gave a jump and a bark at the gander, and the latter, which had now climbed to its webbed feet, scurried away, the flock following him. Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's The webbed foot is fitted to the water; shall we say, then, that water is liquid in order that geese and ducks may swim in it? The Breath of Life Now Old Mother Nature had just fitted out Mr. Duck with a pair of webbed feet that he might swim, so she was quite prepared to fit Mr. Loon out in like manner. Mother West Wind "Where" Stories He had long ears, curling hair, a long bushy tail, and webbed feet, like all dogs that are fond of the water. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. This form is adapted by its slender body and partly webbed feet to a semi-aquatic life; it seems to have halted at a point beyond which all of the seals have passed in their evolution. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope He thrust his muzzle under the hissing gander and sent him over on his back, where he lay and flapped his webbed feet ridiculously. Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's They have webbed feet, which give them an advantage over the herons in enabling them to swim as well as to wade. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 These birds have a beautiful black and white plumage with a long neck and bill and webbed feet and weigh five or six pounds each. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State Then out from under the old board appeared the queer webbed feet of Grandfather Frog tied together. The Adventures of Grandfather Frog Sylvia has been sending bouquets to the gosling who was her escort on the evening of her Commencement—him of the duck trousers and webbed feet. Aftermath The bird was, so to say, suspended between them and moved forward by quick strokes of a pair of enormously large webbed feet, precisely as a duck propels itself in water. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Its beak baffles description, its long legs and webbed feet are a joke, its nesting habits are amazing, and its food habits the despair of most zoological-garden keepers. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation They have strong wings and fly great distances, and with their webbed feet swim well, too. Stories of California In a similar way the webbed feet of birds that swim were developed by their aquatic habits. Creation and Its Records Cape Barren Island, besides the kangaroo and wombat, is inhabited by the porcupine ant-eater; a rat with webbed feet; paroquets, and small birds unknown at Port Jackson, some few of which were of beautiful plumage. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 On this day likewise they took a bird resembling a heron, of a black colour, with a white tuft on its head, and having webbed feet like a duck. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Men born with fins and webbed feet might enjoy themselves in the lakes and swamps, which form a considerable portion of Florida. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation I wished to let my wife see this rare bird, which, if standing on its webbed feet, would have been four feet high; I therefore forbade them to meddle with it. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H “No,” said Egbert, “there were marks of webbed feet all over the place, and we followed the tracks down to the stream at the bottom of the garden; evidently an otter.” Beasts and Super-Beasts I admired this curious mammal, with its rounded head ornamented with short ears, its round eyes, and white whiskers like those of a cat, with webbed feet and nails, and tufted tail. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The beach was soon reached, and some hundred walrus had collected, either waddling about on their clumsy webbed feet, or sleeping in family groups. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude The bell-like tinkle of water out of sight was the only sound until I heard a patter-patter of webbed feet coming along the road. Two Summers in Guyenne A little breeze was blowing, and the ducks bobbed like corks in the waves, keeping themselves in place with graceful side-strokes of their webbed feet. Memoirs of My Dead Life They were undoubtedly related to the ordinary ducks; for, like these, they too had a thick-set body, broad bill, and webbed feet; but they were much more elaborately gotten up. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils I should say that, in the water, which is their element—the spine of these creatures is flexible; with smooth and close skin and webbed feet—they swim admirably. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea His beak and legs and webbed feet are greenish yellow, and this is quite enough to distinguish the two birds. On the Seashore On this day likewise they took a bird resembling a heron, of a black color with a white tuft on its head, and having webbed feet like a duck. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation His webbed feet are cut off and given as trophies to the ladies who are present. The Life of the Fields And then, observe the spread of that webbed foot, and the power of them paddles. Nature and Human Nature Downy's webbed feet were fast in Dinah's kinky hair, and it took some time to disentangle them. The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge The powerful webbed feet of the Cormorant, set far back on the body, the darting head, long neck, and long curved beak, tell you plainly how he earns his meals. On the Seashore Gently Baree nosed him, and after a moment or two Umisk got up on his webbed feet, while fully twenty or thirty beavers were making a tremendous fuss in the water near the shore. Baree, Son of Kazan The fins of fishes, the webbed feet of amphibious birds, the paddles of the Indian, and the poles and oars of the riverman, were all imitated by the patient inventors struggling with the problem. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway In the water, their ideal element, I must say these animals swim wonderfully thanks to their flexible backbones, narrow pelvises, close–cropped hair, and webbed feet. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea One kind of these rat-like opossums is aquatic, and has webbed feet. The Naturalist on the River Amazons What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming? The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition It was the quickest way from the water to the house, but difficult for the little lame webbed feet. The Diary of a Goose Girl "To catch gulls, with their webbed feet and yellow stockings," said the boy. Kenilworth For some days we saw a large number of aquatic birds with webbed feet, known as gulls or sea mews. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea It was not a bird, but had a balloon-shaped body, paddled by five webbed feet. A Voyage to Arcturus But webbed feet no doubt were as useful to the progenitor of the upland goose and of the frigate-bird, as they now are to the most aquatic of living birds. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition No," replied Herbert, "since he has webbed feet, and is almost an amphibious animal. The Mysterious Island The webbed feet of the upland goose may be said to have become almost rudimentary in function, though not in structure. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition |
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