. Citizen bird: scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners. Birds. 314 CITIZEN BIRD " Oil, yes, a round swelled-up place ; but what is the good of it ? " persisted Dodo. ''It is a resting-j)lace for food, where it may swell, soften, and be partl}^ ground up. All birds are fond of eating sand and ; 5! My Canary picks up lots )its every time I put fresh his ; " This gravel mixes with the 3d and helps to grind it up. Tou can understand how necessary this is when you emember that some birds, like Pigeons, swallow hard grains of corn en- tirely
. Citizen bird: scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners. Birds. 314 CITIZEN BIRD " Oil, yes, a round swelled-up place ; but what is the good of it ? " persisted Dodo. ''It is a resting-j)lace for food, where it may swell, soften, and be partl}^ ground up. All birds are fond of eating sand and ; 5! My Canary picks up lots )its every time I put fresh his ; " This gravel mixes with the 3d and helps to grind it up. Tou can understand how necessary this is when you emember that some birds, like Pigeons, swallow hard grains of corn en- tirely ; " Yes, and I saw iNIammy Bun clean a Chicken yesterday," said Nat; " there was a lot of sand and corn in a lump in its throat — and so that's called a crop r "To return to the Flickers : they live in flocks in autumn, and when a number are feeding on the ground at a little distance they might be taken for jNIeadowlarks — so you see that you did not make such a dreadful mistake after all, little ; " Won't you come over to the miller's woods with. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. New York : The Macmillan company
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