Deceptions Of Wild Birds

Falcons, hawks - the largest species - v can coinpress theiv featliersand look very slim, if they think it necessafy te do so. As to the owls, they can hump np ín o any position they think mostisuitable. It is useless to look for these self pn serving traits in any of the family kept in 200logical collections, for the birds ;ire üo accustomed to see large nniabers of people passing and repassing, or standmy in front of them, that they treat the whole matter with perfect indiiïerence. They know that at a certain time their food will be brought them, and that they are otherwise perfectly safe. Then the raptores in a wild state have a bloom on their phimage like the bloom on a bunch of ffi-aües, which is not ofteu seen when fiu captivity.-