The child's book of nature for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature . ey pick it up,and send it down into their crops to be well soaked! The hum-ming-bird has a very long bill, and in it lies a long, slender, andvery delicate tongue. As he poises himself in the air before aflower, his wings fluttering so quickly that you cannot see them,he runs his bill into the bottom of the flower where the insectsare. The humming-birds are now known to be insect-eaters to agreat extent; and though they appear to suck honey o
The child's book of nature for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature . ey pick it up,and send it down into their crops to be well soaked! The hum-ming-bird has a very long bill, and in it lies a long, slender, andvery delicate tongue. As he poises himself in the air before aflower, his wings fluttering so quickly that you cannot see them,he runs his bill into the bottom of the flower where the insectsare. The humming-birds are now known to be insect-eaters to agreat extent; and though they appear to suck honey or nectarfrom the flowers they visit, are really searching for insects. Thehumming-bird moth, a kind of night butterfly, looks so muchlike a real bird some people mistake one for the other. Thereare some humming-birds that are but a trifle larger than ahumble-bee ; and the humming-bird moth is twice that resemblance between the latter insect and some of our morecommon humming-birds, in size, form, flight, flitting, and hum-ming, is very great. The way each approach a flower and hoverover it is much the same. 110 WnAT ANIMALS USE FOR The bill of a cluck. The power of the elephants trunk and the variety of things it can do. The bill of the duck is made in a peculiar way. You know thatit gets its food under water in the mud. It cannot see, therefore,what it gets. It has to work altogether bv feeling, and it has nerves in its bill forthis purpose. Hereis a picture of its billjshowing the nervesbranching out on see, too, a rowof pointed things all around the edge. They look like teeth,but they are not teeth. They are used by the duck in findingits food. It manages in this way: it thrusts its bill down, andas it takes it up it is full of mud. Now mixed with the mudare things which the duck lives on. The nerves tell the duckwhat is good, and it lets all the rest go out between the is a sort of sifting operation, the nerves in the sieve takinggood car
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