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Excerpt from Cassell's Natural History: The Feathered Tribes The sternum is of enormous size, extending over a considerable part of the abdomen, and having a large perpendicular crest descending, like the keel of a ship, from its lower surface. This is designed to provide extensive attachment to the large pectoral muscles employed to move the wings, and which, taken together, are generally heavier than the rest of the body, and they are also of enormous strength. The flap of a swan's wing is said to be capable of breaking a man's leg, and a similar blow from an eagle has been known to prove instantly fatal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.