30 The Bird 



a reptile — and working up to a feather; for, if we except 

 the down, there seems to be no connect i no: hnk left. 



Fig. 18. — Young iiruwn I'elicans; hatched naked and helpless (allricial). 



1/4 natural size. 



Fig. 10. — ■^'oung Red .luiigle Towl one day old; hatched covered with down and 

 able within a tew hours to help itself (precocial). Almost natin-al size. 



Although that old, old fossil bird Archceopteryx 

 still retained reptile-like teeth, fingers and tail, it had 



