. Our bird friends; containing many things young folks ought to know--and likewise grown-ups . MORE FACTS ABOUT BIRDS. CHAPTER II MORE FACTS ABOUT BIRDS AVE you ever noticed the framework of a bird?If you have noticed the carpenters putting upa new house you have seen a lot of planks andcrosspieces and sills and rafters and all kindsof timbers and pipes, strung about in many ways. Well, if you could see a bird before it gets its feathers andflesh on it, it would look like a new house—so many bonesand strings and leaders running here and there. Every oneof them serves some useful purpose, and i
. Our bird friends; containing many things young folks ought to know--and likewise grown-ups . MORE FACTS ABOUT BIRDS. CHAPTER II MORE FACTS ABOUT BIRDS AVE you ever noticed the framework of a bird?If you have noticed the carpenters putting upa new house you have seen a lot of planks andcrosspieces and sills and rafters and all kindsof timbers and pipes, strung about in many ways. Well, if you could see a bird before it gets its feathers andflesh on it, it would look like a new house—so many bonesand strings and leaders running here and there. Every oneof them serves some useful purpose, and in hardly any twobirds are the rafters and sills and plumbing exactly alike. It is no wonder that a chicken does not fall off of the limbwhen it goes to sleep; it cant. It is built to sit upon a limb andsleep. When it sits down its toes close up and it cannot openthem until it rises. The only way a chicken could fall off of alimb would be for it to stand up. The leaders running down into the toes are too short, in onesense of the word. When the leg is bent the toes close. When 10 OUR BIRD FRIENDS an old rooster
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