. Field, forest and farm; things interesting to young nature-lovers, including some matters of moment to gardeners and fruit-growers. Natural history; Agriculture. 334 FIELD, FOREST AND FARM which grow a dozen coarse feathers. The first bird in the order of time had its tail composed of a long succession of little bones, each supporting two feathers. Here is a picture of that tail just as it was found in the rock where the strange creature left its remains. The bird to which the tail belonged is called by the learned an archaeopteryx, or ancient winged animal. "One more of these monsters,
. Field, forest and farm; things interesting to young nature-lovers, including some matters of moment to gardeners and fruit-growers. Natural history; Agriculture. 334 FIELD, FOREST AND FARM which grow a dozen coarse feathers. The first bird in the order of time had its tail composed of a long succession of little bones, each supporting two feathers. Here is a picture of that tail just as it was found in the rock where the strange creature left its remains. The bird to which the tail belonged is called by the learned an archaeopteryx, or ancient winged animal. "One more of these monsters, and that will ,-~<«s^ Mammoth The animal that you see here is the mammoth, a sort of enormous shaggy elephant, so tall that its back would have touched the ceiling in most of our great halls. Its height was as much as six meters. By its side the ordinary elephant, the largest of extant terrestrial animals, would look no larger than a sheep beside an ox. "Its tusks, which had a pronounced backward curve, measured four meters in length and weighed as much as four hundred and eighty pounds Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fabre, Jean-Henri, 1823-1915; Bicknell, Florence Constable, tr. New York, The Century Co.
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