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 . and has under his feet a lamb which he found in the valley be-low. It had, perhaps, wandered from the flock, and, as it wasfeeding, not thinking of danger, the vulture espied it. Swiftlydiving down, he caught it with his strong claws and brought it INSTRUMENTS OF DEFENCE AND ATTACK. 129 The bill of the toucan. How it trims its tail. np here. You see what a beak he has to tear the lamb inpieces, that he may devour it. The toucan, which you see
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 . and has under his feet a lamb which he found in the valley be-low. It had, perhaps, wandered from the flock, and, as it wasfeeding, not thinking of danger, the vulture espied it. Swiftlydiving down, he caught it with his strong claws and brought it INSTRUMENTS OF DEFENCE AND ATTACK. 129 The bill of the toucan. How it trims its tail. np here. You see what a beak he has to tear the lamb inpieces, that he may devour it. The toucan, which you see here, has a larger bill than mostother birds. It uses itin crashing and tearingits food, which consistsof fruits, mice, andsmall birds. Its edgesare toothed somewhatlike a saw, adapting itto tear in pieces the lit-tle animals which thisbird feeds on. Butit can use its bill alsofor another is a powerful in-strument of defencein fighting off the an-imals that attack toucan makes itsnest in a hole of a tree, which it digs out with its bill, if itdoes not readily find one already made; and there it sits, keep-ing off all intruders w
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