Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 365
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 … A FLY CLEANING ITS WINGS WITH ITS HIND LEGS. the water after a rain, or even in a little pool inthe gutter. Some birds will dash, for a moment,against the surface of a pond, and so give them-selves a superficial washing. Often, when I have
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