. Elementary anatomy and physiology : for colleges, academies, and other schools . Head of the Woodpecker. with appendages like barbs on either side, in order that it may be thrust into narrow crevices in trees, to pierce and hold in- sects upon which it lives. (See Fig. 370.) Humming-birds have tongues very slender and slit at the apex, so that both sides can be formed into a sort of tube by curving them to- gether from the outside, in order that the bird may suck up the nectar of flowers. And in both of these birds the tongue can be extended for a long distance in front of the body. 759. Ton
. Elementary anatomy and physiology : for colleges, academies, and other schools . Head of the Woodpecker. with appendages like barbs on either side, in order that it may be thrust into narrow crevices in trees, to pierce and hold in- sects upon which it lives. (See Fig. 370.) Humming-birds have tongues very slender and slit at the apex, so that both sides can be formed into a sort of tube by curving them to- gether from the outside, in order that the bird may suck up the nectar of flowers. And in both of these birds the tongue can be extended for a long distance in front of the body. 759. Tongue of Reptiles—Chameleon—The tongue of most of the class of reptiles seems to be constructed for other purposes than that of taste. Like that of birds, it is pro- vided with one or more lingual (tongue) bones, and is desti- 753. TTow is it with the sense of taste in birds ? Describe the tongue of the woodpecker. What is its use? What is the tongue of the humming-bird ? How far can the tongue be protruded in either of these animals ? 759. For what purpose is the tongue of rep- tiles?
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