StNicholas [serial] . OUTLINE OF ONE OF THE young birds use these like claws or fingers. The adult bird shows no trace of these claws,but the nestlings, soon after hatching, crawl about,holding and hooking to surrounding objects byboth bill and wings, and scrambling on all foursif disturbed, plainly showing a tendency to em-ploy the wings, much as fingered or clawed forelimbs are made use of by other animals. The wattled ploon is another bird with a spuron each wing, which is used in fighting, and the habit that swans exhibit in striking with thewings is well known, probably a legacy
StNicholas [serial] . OUTLINE OF ONE OF THE young birds use these like claws or fingers. The adult bird shows no trace of these claws,but the nestlings, soon after hatching, crawl about,holding and hooking to surrounding objects byboth bill and wings, and scrambling on all foursif disturbed, plainly showing a tendency to em-ploy the wings, much as fingered or clawed forelimbs are made use of by other animals. The wattled ploon is another bird with a spuron each wing, which is used in fighting, and the habit that swans exhibit in striking with thewings is well known, probably a legacy from somevery un-bird-like THE WATTLED the spurs on its wings for fighting. A sketch in detail of the wing of the younghoactzin is shown on this page. A. H. Baldwin. SUGGESTIONS FOR SNOW IMAGES Herewith are illustrations from photographs ofsnow sculpture made by the residents of Andreas-burg, Germany, where each winter prizes areoffered by the village authorities for the finestand most original designs in snow modeling. The
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