Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 365
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 … A FLY CLEANING ITS FORE LEGS BY RUBBINGTHEM TOGETHER. bill can usually get hold of the ends and sostraighten them out. Birds often bathe. No doubt you have oftenseen the pestiferous English sparrow splashing in
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