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Title: The bird, its form and function
Identifier: cu31924000149959 (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Beebe, William, 1877-1962
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, Holt
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Beaks and Bills 225 reaching about, or for progression being understood. But no one would think of alluding to a bird's lips or nose; both are included in the terms beak, or bill, and nostrils. The finding and securing of food being the most im- portant problem which birds have to solve for themselves, it is for these purposes, and especially the last mentioned, that we find bills most adapted. This is so universally
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Fig. Hi:!. —Bill ot .American Raven. the case that we may often judge accurately of the kind of food of a certain bird from a glance at its beak. As is the case with so many other avian structures, the horny, toothless beak or bill is duplicated elsewhere in Nature only in a group of reptiles, the turtles and tor- toises, whose mandibles furnish a splendid example of parallel evolution. In certain of those long-extinct Dinosaurs, such as

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  • bookauthor:Beebe_William_1877_1962
  • booksubject:Birds
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Holt
  • bookcontributor:Cornell_University_Library
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:244
  • bookcollection:cornell
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
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