. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 183.—Barn Fig. 184. — Burrowing Owl. THE OWLS AND PARROTS 209 when approached bow repeatedly before taking to thewing. The eye of the black leopard has always seemed tome to be the most remarkable in its blaze of yellow light,but the huge eye of a large owl is almost as menacing. The parrots are essentially climbing birds. They per-form the most remarkable feats by means of their power-ful claws, which, it will benoticed, are arranged in pairs,two in front and two have powerful beaks, likethe hawks, but with one excep-tion
. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 183.—Barn Fig. 184. — Burrowing Owl. THE OWLS AND PARROTS 209 when approached bow repeatedly before taking to thewing. The eye of the black leopard has always seemed tome to be the most remarkable in its blaze of yellow light,but the huge eye of a large owl is almost as menacing. The parrots are essentially climbing birds. They per-form the most remarkable feats by means of their power-ful claws, which, it will benoticed, are arranged in pairs,two in front and two have powerful beaks, likethe hawks, but with one excep-tion are not flesh-eaters, livingupon seeds and fruit. Theyhave peculiar fleshy tongueswhich can be moved in almostany direction, and many parrotscan be taught to utter wordsand sentences. They have nointelligent understanding ofsuch words, merely imitatingwhat they hear and have beentaught. But so well do many oftheir phrases fit to time and occasion, that it is almost im-possible to believe they are not using language after thefashion of man. One which was kept in
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