. Nos oiseaux d'hiver, comment les connaître et comment les attirer . ughter, c'est l'un des plus agréables et des plus vivants du printemps. Aucune petite partie de la compétence de Downys comme un carpenterand batteur est due à l'appui qu'il reçoit ses pieds et la queue. Imaginez un Robin accrochant à thetrunk d'un arbre et essayant d'utiliser son projet de loi comme Downydoes je même si elle avait le même genre de projet de loi qu'elle ne pourrait pas percher assez fermement pour fournir des coups efficaces. J'ai une fois placé un spécimen de musée d'un pic de bois dans les mains de Helen Kellers et par son combaion lui a demandé de me dire ce qu'elle pouvait découvrir ses orteils. Rapidement sa sensibilité

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. Our winter birds, how to know and how to attract them . ughter, it is one of the pleasing and welcomevoices of spring. No small part of Downys skill as a carpenterand drummer is due to the support he receives fromhis feet and tail. Imagine a Robin clinging to thetrunk of a tree and trying to use its bill as Downydoes I Even if it had the same kind of bill it couldnot perch firmly enough to deliver effective blows. I once placed a museum specimen of a Wood-pecker in Helen Kellers hands and through her com-panion asked her to tell me what she could discoverabout its toes. Quickly her sensitive fingers found HOME BIRDS 41 an answer to the question and she replied, It hastwo front toes and two hind ones. Robin, we know, with all other Perching Birds, has three front toesand one hind one, an arrangement which permitshim to grasp small twigs. But Downy does notperch, he clings, and his strong, widespreading toesgive him a firm grip on the bark. The last thing we should expect a bird to do is tosit on its tail; but this is exactly what Downy does.. Downys Chisel and Climeir The tips of Robins tail-feathers are rounded andsoft, while Downys are pointed and as stiff asbristles. They stick into the bark and make as gooda brace as the belt a telegraph linesman uses whenclimbing poles. We have all seen one of those men with sharpspurs strapped to his feet go up a smooth pole.When he reaches the place at which he wishes towork, he leans back on the strap, which goes aroundthe pole and his body, just as Downy leans back onhis tail-feathers. 42 OUR WINTER BIRDS Soon after the first railroad crossed the continent, a famous Indian chief was brought to a station inthe West to see a locomotive. When the strangeand terrible monster appeared, it seemed neither tointerest nor excite him; but when a linesman withhis spurs on happened to ascend a nearby telegraphpole, he exclaimed with wonder that a man couldclimb like a Woodpecker! Aside from the Woodpeckers we have only fourother climbin

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