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THE very interesting letter of Mr. David Wilson-Barker under the above title in NATURE of January 8 (p. 223) leads me to say that during a recent voyage to Ivigtut, Greenland, I very often observed in the flight of the Arctic tern the same use of wings and tail which Mr. Wilson-Barker saw in the flight of the sooty albatross. I further noticed that the terns very frequently made use of their feet in steering a course through the air.
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SPEARS, J. On the Flight of Oceanic Birds. Nature 43, 319 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043319b0
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