IN FEATHERS AND FUR, 
101 
About the beginning of February, the baby Nandus begin to 
come out of the eggs, and then the careful Papa takes them out in 
the neighborhood tor something to eat. 
For four or five weeks, they do not see their Mammas, but 
when they are as old as that, the family gradually gets together 
again, and all go in one flock. They eat grass and clover, and arc 
specially useful in eating the seeds of a plant which bears burrs 
that do great damage by getting entangled in the wool of sheep. 
At all times, too, they eat insects and snakes, and other small 
reptiles. 
