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Entered as second class matter, May 16, 1904, at Appleton, Wis., under the act of Congress of Mar, 3. ’79. 
VOL. X, 
APRIL, 1908. 
No. 10 
A Study in Character of Birds as Shotfn 
by Heads and Necks. 
This article and illustrations used by permission of 
Atkinson. Mentzer & Grover. 
The head of a bird is indeed a won¬ 
derful object, when we consider its com- 
paritively small size and realize that it 
contains the brain, as well as being the 
beak. The only exception which comes 
to mind is the crowned crane, the suffus¬ 
ing of whose bare, white cheeks indicates 
the changing emotions. 
The eyes of most birds are placed at 
the sides of the head, in such a position 
that the bird cannot bring both to bear 
PORTRAIT OF DEMOISELLE CRANE—A Dandy in Every Line 
seat of the five senses. It also supports 
that important organ, the beak, which 
takes the place of hands and tools in the 
life of its owner. 
Of expression, with the exception of 
that caused by raising its feathers, the 
bird has liitle. Fear, however, which 
must needs be expressed all too often in 
the life of a bird, is made apparent by 
the dilating eyes and the open, panting 
simultaneously upon the same object, but 
is compelled to turn its head and look 
sideways. As birds spend so much of 
their time in the air, or in trees, where 
danger may threaten from all sides, 
above or below, this arrangement is most 
useful to them, giving them command of 
almost their whole surroundings, whereas 
without turning the head, we can only 
see ahead of us. In much the same rel- 
