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THE Duke of Argyll appears to maintain that a bird can remain at rest in a uniform horizontal current by simply placing and maintaining itself in a certain fixed attitude.* He seems likewise to think that the muscular effort required to maintain this attitude is somehow an explanation of the phenomenon.
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GUTHRIE, F. Flight of Birds. Nature 11, 364 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011364a0
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