. New elementary agriculture for rural and graded schools; an elementary text book dealing with the plants, insects, birds, weather, and animals of the farm . L ofC. CHAPTER VIII BIRDS Quite prominent among the various animals which wesee almost every day of our lives are the birds. Theyare of great variety, and have different habits, one from the other. Next to theinsects, they are themost numerous of allthe forms that live onland. Of course thereis a reason for this, andby stopping to think wemay be able to tell justwhat this reason is. Ifwe dont know it now,we will before we finishreading t
. New elementary agriculture for rural and graded schools; an elementary text book dealing with the plants, insects, birds, weather, and animals of the farm . L ofC. CHAPTER VIII BIRDS Quite prominent among the various animals which wesee almost every day of our lives are the birds. Theyare of great variety, and have different habits, one from the other. Next to theinsects, they are themost numerous of allthe forms that live onland. Of course thereis a reason for this, andby stopping to think wemay be able to tell justwhat this reason is. Ifwe dont know it now,we will before we finishreading the presentchapter. Birds differ from otheranimals by having their bodies covered with feathersinstead of with hair, fur, or scales. Then, too, many ofthem have their front legs so changed that they can beused for flying through the air. Only the hind legs arefitted and used for perching, running, and walking. Birds are found all over the surface of the earth, fromthe warmer to the colder parts, both on land and seems, too, that man has been interested in them for. Fig. 45. Black-capped chickadee orTitmouse. BIRDS lOI a verv long time. More tlian three thousand years agosome kinds had already been tamed by the half-wildpeople who lived then. Some of the people who Hvedin America long before it was discovered by Columbusalso had tame birds. Perhaps a few words about thesekinds that have been tamed will be interesting to town-folks. Birds that have been Tamed.—Chickens are first andforemost among these; for, of course, they are birds justas truly as the English sparrow or the robin. Althoughchickens are now of so many breeds, they all came froma single kind of wild bird, which is still found in thejungles or forests of southeastern Asia. This wild birdis called the jungle fowl or jungle bird, which is verymuch the same in its appearance as some of the tamegame cocks of to-day. But the many changes in living, which the tame birdshave been made to pass through in these th
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