4 A Bird Is Not So Like a Dinosaur

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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. What Is a Bird ?
7. The Bird beneath the Feathers 15
8. A Bird Is an Animal with Hollow Bones 40
9. A Bird Is Like a Dinosaur 86
10. A Bird Is Not So Like a Dinosaur 108
11. What Kind of Bird Is It?
12. The Kinds of Birds 133
13. That Bird Is Different from the Other One 169
14. How Does a Bird Fly?
15. Feathers and Feather ed Dinosaurs 205
16. Birds with a Modern Shape 235
17. Birds on Land 275
18. Birds at Sea 305
19. Conclusion 344
20. Birds in Relation to Other Vertebrate Animals 346
21. Geological Time Scale 347
22. Glossary of Ornithological Terms 349
23. Literature Cited 360
24. Index 372