Citizen Bird - Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by Mabel Osgood Wright;Elliott Coues
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CLASS II. Birds.--Warm-blooded animals which have feathers and lay eggs.
CLASS III. Reptiles.--Cold-blooded animals which have scaly skins, like lizards, snakes, and turtles. CLASS IV. Batrachians.--Cold-blooded animals which have naked skins, like frogs, toads, and newts. All the foregoing classes, except a few of the Batrachians, breathe air in lungs, and almost all, except snakes, have legs; none now living can fly, except bats and birds; but bats are Mammals. CLASS V. Fishes.--Cold-blooded animals which have either scaly or naked skins, but no fur or feathers; which live in the water, breathe it with their gills, and swim in it with fins. CHAPTER V CITIZEN BIRD The apple trees were in full bloom the day that the Doctor again found time to be with the children. It was exactly the kind of a day that birds like. The ground was soft enough to let the earthworms come up to breathe, so that Robins could catch them easily, and the air was full of all kinds of insects newly out from their long winter sleep in their soft cocoon beds, much to the delight of the Swallows and Flycatchers. |
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