The Toilet of Birds 



habits of birds as opposed to the broad general 

 outlines of their life. It took me a long time 

 to find out the universality of scratching with 

 the third toe among birds, and I expect it will 

 be longer yet before I, or any one else, will 

 succeed in getting a step further and explaining 

 some of the inconsistencies of Nature I have 

 touched on in this article. 



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