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sopped brown bread. If my readers will notice, 

 either in pictures or at the Zoo, the endless variety 

 of form in the beaks of birds, English and foreign, 

 they will admire the marvellous adaptation to the 

 needs of each bird, from the great pouch of the 

 fish-eating pelican, down to the slender curved beak 

 which enables the humming-bird to obtain honey 

 from tubular blossoms in the Tropics. 



