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Updated: May 19, 2025
The swaying of the cane-brakes near and far signalled the secret movements of the wingless wild things which had only stealth to guard them against the cruelty of nature and against one another. The heaviest waves of cane near the great Shawnee Crossing might have followed a timid red deer. For the Shawnees had vanished from their town on the other side of the Ohio.
The different orders of insects in Madeira apparently present analogous facts. Oceanic islands are sometimes deficient in certain classes, and their places are apparently occupied by the other inhabitants; in the Galapagos Islands reptiles, and in New Zealand gigantic wingless birds, take the place of mammals. In the plants of the Galapagos Islands, Dr.
Did you ever see as well as hear a grasshopper? The locust is an insect of the same kind, and I have heard that African locusts in the first stage of their life are as green as grasshoppers, but wingless though they afterwards have very pretty wings.
The commonest kinds were the striped slender species of the meadows and streams, good swimmers, that lived mostly on frogs. Once I observed one of the larger ones, about two feet long, pursuing a frog in our meadow, and it was wonderful to see how fast the legless, footless, wingless, finless hunter could run.
This may apparently be done independently of the effects of disuse, for certain neuter ants have eyes which are reduced to a more or less rudimentary condition, and neuter termites are blind as well as wingless.
She knew now that she had lived too long in the soil that she had hated; and was too old to be transplanted. The custom of the country that weighty, wingless creature born of time and of the earth had its limbs fast twined around her. It had made of her its mistress, and was not going to let her go.
In front of her she held, one hand grasping each leg, what seemed to me to be an ungainly and wingless goose. All about her the ground was soft and boggy. Her clothes were muddy, her face was red, and the creature she held was struggling violently. "What on earth have you got?" I exclaimed, approaching as near as I could, "and how did you get out there?" "Don't you come any closer!" she cried.
That void interval which passes for him so slowly that the very clocks seem at a stand, and the wingless hours plod by in the likeness of tired tramps prone to rest at milestones that same interval, perhaps, teems with events, and pants with hurry for his friends. The hermit if he be a sensible hermit will swallow his own thoughts, and lock up his own emotions during these weeks of inward winter.
Suddenly also we came upon a cassowary, a wingless bird, the body of which is about twice the size of a large turkey, but its long legs raise it to the height of five or six feet from the ground. It is covered with long close black hair like feathers. The skin of the neck is bare, and it is of a bright blue and red.
The latter is one of the numerous species of aphis which begins its attack in the winged state, and after producing wingless green lice in abundance which further increase by the process known as "gemmation" reappears with wings in the final generation of the lice, and hibernates in readiness for its visitation in the spring next year.
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