Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 365
ig, and some fowls, have been purposely bredwith roughed-up coats, but nature seems to havelittle liking for such costumes! How beautifully bright and neat the birds ingeneral keep themselves ! How smooth and spot-less is the soft plumage of the ring-dove! Theelaborate plumage of the wood-duck is… … Birds with very long beaks are unable to reachparts of their neck with them, so their neck fea-thers are short enough to stay in place withoutmuch care. If the neck feathers are long, the
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