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paif 01 pincers. The Kingfisher (Fig. 194) and Stork are good 

 examples of this. Birds that live on Insects, Seeds, or Fruits, 



FIG. 193. BKAK OF GULL. 



have beaks very dissimilar from these ; the first have generally a 

 very slender beak, much elongated, and straight or slightly- 



FIG. 194 BEAK OF KINGFISHER. 



curved (Fig. 195) ; unless indeed it is during flight that they 

 capture the small insects on which they feed, for then the beak 

 is short, very wide, and deeply cleft, an arrangement which 

 we see in Swallows, Goatsuckers (Fig. 196), &c.; this permits 



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FIG. 195. BILL OK BKK- 



BATBR, 



FIG. 196. BILL OF GOAT- 

 SUCKER. 



Fro. 197 BILL or 

 SPARROW. 



them easily to engulf their prey in their wide throats. Grani- 

 vorous Birds, on the contrary, have a short thick beak, arched 

 above, or conical, and generally straight, as in the Sparrow 



