FOE some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule) by carrying away the excrement, and often by swallowing it, during the early part of the nestling-period. While watching these operations I noticed that, after feeding the young, the old birds almost a...
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