. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. 2 bird, not easily aiuiuisliod or evoli iiiluibituuts of the ill and liigli si)int, \y darker until at 1 by two causes— ; of liemp-seed in on the cage-birds, and Ijrown under Jut it is virhially Inland, are most liar ibnn of beak ', so that at first ird from ]iickiiig seen feeding, it birds, iinti tu be :]i it obtains in a ' tree wliere ripe moments rnfs a and eats tlieni. Is the Crossbill. ri;, -/.r. is rallier a voracious bird, the Imvoc wliieh it will mak ininL;ine( 0 in an orcliar
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. 2 bird, not easily aiuiuisliod or evoli iiiluibituuts of the ill and liigli si)int, \y darker until at 1 by two causes— ; of liemp-seed in on the cage-birds, and Ijrown under Jut it is virhially Inland, are most liar ibnn of beak ', so that at first ird from ]iickiiig seen feeding, it birds, iinti tu be :]i it obtains in a ' tree wliere ripe moments rnfs a and eats tlieni. Is the Crossbill. ri;, -/.r. is rallier a voracious bird, the Imvoc wliieh it will mak ininL;ine( 0 in an orcliard may be Siinie persons saytliat t1ie bird is able t liduld i;iney that in sueli cases the ai)])l(> nnist be of tl 0 cut an apjde in two with a sintjle bite • but I iiive for it is hardly larger than the bulltinch, and tlie liead is not at all dis 1 porlionate in lengtli to the rest of tlui bodv. This Itird is also very fond of the seeds of cone-1 le smallest and the liird of tlio ipro- learina tree ill great ni'iiiliers. Wliile engaged in eating, it breaks the s the pine-forests haunts cones fronr branches, and holding theiii lirnily ni its ieet alter the fashion of tla^ parrots, inserts its b(>ak below the '" i^way, and with its lione-tipped tongue scoops out the seed. Tl lies rt tl tl wrenches 'ir beaks under tl scales l)y partially ojiening their montl the extremities ol' tli(> bill imiiiediateiy over each other,'thus f The points of Die l,(>ak are then easi'ly inserted like a\ved'>( ley IS so as to bring brming a kind of wedue. un( ler tl le scales, a U(l. eiily drawing tlio lower niandibh' sid,.ways, tlie scab' is detaclied from tlie cone nd by Tl power of the beak is quite extraoriliiiarv, as the bird hivaking open almonds wl aelii evcil e in their sliell, and getting at the kernel. This ft evinces no ditlicnlty in at is >y peeking a hoh in tln^ .shell, pushing the point of the beak into th ipiekiiig up little s( wner, and to be cayiable, not (
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