non-flyers

Updated: February 13, 2026

Suggestive, indeed, is the fact that the plumes of the non-flyers are not arranged in tracts, but are evenly distributed over the body. Nor is that all that Nature has done to carry out her evident purpose of making the bird a natural "flying machine."

Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser - Our Bird Comrades