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Updated: June 8, 2025
This was a step too far; the house-owner turned an open beak toward him, and in unmistakable tones told him to leave which he at once did, of course. This boundary made by the tanager was never changed, but in the rest of the cage the goldfinch made himself at home, and at once assumed the position of protector.
From a case under his arm Kennedy produced a curious arrangement like a huge hook, with a curved neck and a sharp beak. Really it consisted of two metal tubes which ran into a sort of cylinder, or mixing chamber, above the nozzle, while parallel to them ran a third separate tube with a second nozzle of its own.
The shape of the bird's beak will decide, at least in a general way, the kind of food it eats; and a little study of birds will convince any one that all birds are useful to the agriculturist, either as destroyers of noxious insects or of weed seeds.
"Yes, I nearly broke my beak over it yesterday. I was quite ashamed of it when the ladies were staring at you so admiringly." "Little one, I have a great mind to try that swing. It has tempted me this long while." "My love, I beg you will do no such thing. You will inevitably break your neck." Instead of this pleasant conjugal chit-chat, what has he? Nothing.
As the king-bird sat erect on his branch, watching with bright eyes the miracle of the morning, an over-adventurous dragon-fly arose from a weed-top below him and flew into the rosy light. The bird darted straight and true, zigzagged sharply as the victim tried to dodge, caught the lean prize in his beak, and carried it very gallantly to his mate upon the nest.
He beat at it wildly with his hands, burst out of the thicket like an explosion, and smashed full tilt into the bird before he could stop himself. With a piercing squawk the bird shot into the air, flipped over, and came fluttering down facing him talons outstretched, hooked beak open, eyes a-glare. Completely terrified, David turned and bolted for the thicket.
He has just the same sort of a beak and the same sort of a wig, and I wondered why he had his wig powdered and the others didn't. Pollock's wig had a hole in the top; you could see it when he bent over to take notes. He was always taking notes. I don't believe he understood about those proclamations either; he never seemed to listen, anyway.
Other references to the same bird are as follows: "The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements." "It comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house, Boding to all." "That tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings."
He dropped down on to the balcony floor, hopped over to the toast, pecked at it, picked it up in his strong beak, and flew with it to the roof of the building opposite. In silence the two men watched him devour it. "That seems all right, Major," said the police officer. "You've made him your friend for life. He's coming back for more." The crow perched on the rail again and cawed loudly.
It is said of the Queen-Mother of the West that she goes about with hair unkempt, with a bird's beak and tiger's teeth, and that she is skilled in playing the flute. Yet this is not her true figure, but that of a spirit who serves her, and rules over the Western sky. The Queen-Mother entertained King Mu in her castle by the Springs of Jade.
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