. Bird-lore . DO BIRDS WATER THEIR YOUNG?Photographed by Mrs. S. Louise Patteson, Fairmount, Ohio In asking whether birds water their young, Mrs. S. Louise Patteson writes: Infeeding their young (see lower picture), Goldfinches go very close to them. But in theupper picture we have the parent alighting at a place where such close approach wasimpossible, and supplying them from that distance with what resembles a liquid. Mayit not be, therefore, that the photograph marks the discover^ of the fact that birdsdo water, as well as feed, their young? T9 the editor, however, it seems more probable th
. Bird-lore . DO BIRDS WATER THEIR YOUNG?Photographed by Mrs. S. Louise Patteson, Fairmount, Ohio In asking whether birds water their young, Mrs. S. Louise Patteson writes: Infeeding their young (see lower picture), Goldfinches go very close to them. But in theupper picture we have the parent alighting at a place where such close approach wasimpossible, and supplying them from that distance with what resembles a liquid. Mayit not be, therefore, that the photograph marks the discover^ of the fact that birdsdo water, as well as feed, their young? T9 the editor, however, it seems more probable that the line of attachment betweenthe bills of the adult and young is a glutinous saliva adhering to the birds bills afterthe withdrawal of the bill of the adult from the mouth of its offspring.—Editor. flS2) iloofe jOteto0 ant) 3^etoietJD0 IN THE AxiMAI. Kingdom. An Ex[)osition of the Lawsof Disguise through Color and Pattern:Being a Summary of Abljott H. ThayersDiscoveries. By (Jerald
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