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like a young pigeon, but it can see and crawl 

 about, and it uses its wings as well as its legs 

 to hold on to the twigs. The wings have two 

 claws on them, which come in very usefully 



when the bird is climbing like this, but after 

 the feathers come they disappear. You can 

 see specimens of this queer bird and its nest 

 and young ones in the Bird Gallery at the 

 South Kensington Museum. 



There is one family of birds whose young 



