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Updated: May 23, 2025
They nowhere found a support in facts; the force of habit played in them an exaggerated and unnatural rôle; the different illustrations of them such as the long neck of the giraffe explained by the permanent and inherited habit of browsing on the branches of high trees, or the web on the toes of frogs, swimming-birds, etc., explained by the habit of swimming were talked about and laughed at more as curiosities than as worthy of serious consideration.
Swimming-birds that live around Måkläppen, just out of Falsterbo, now come floating over Öresund in many extraordinary figures: in triangular and long curves; in sharp hooks and semicircles. To the great reunion held the year that Nils Holgersson travelled around with the wild geese, came Akka and her flock later than all the others.
I want to tell you more about swallows, and especially a true but sad story of a tame one; but first we will speak of one more group, the Swimming-birds.
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