THE BUILDING OF A BIRD 



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and thus pump the warm blood into all parts of the 

 body ; brain and nerves, which are what birds think 

 and feel with, just as we do with ours; and all their 

 bones, which together make what we call the skeleton, 

 or framework of the body, to keep the flesh in shape 

 and support the other organs." 



"Dear me ! " sighed Dodo; "there must be ever so 

 many more things inside of birds that we can't see, 

 than there are outside." 



" Of course there are ! " said the Doctor. " It won't 

 be very hard for you to remember the outside parts, 

 and learn the names of them all. I have told you most 

 of them that you need to remember, to understand the 

 stories I am going to tell you about birds. See here I 

 What do you think of this ? " 



