Part 65

43. What are some of the enemies of birds?

44. What birds can be called street and field cleaners?

45. Tell me any curious things you have seen or heard about birds.

46. Mention some of the lost birds.

47. How did these birds become extinct?

48. What are the different families of the parrot tribe?

49. In what countries do parrots live?

50. What can you say of their food and habits?

51. Where do canaries come from?

52. Of what color are they in their wild state?

VI.

1. On what plan is a fish built?

2. In what element do fishes live?

3. Where do you suppose men got their first boat patterns?

4. What fish is usually described as a pattern fish?

5. Will you describe a perch?

6. What part answers to the boat’s prow?

7. What part serves for a rudder?

8. How many fins has a perch, and where are they?

9. Which fin is used chiefly for motion?

10. What can you tell me of the eyes of the fish?

11. What use do the gills of a fish serve?

12. What does a fish breathe?

13. Does the fish need oxygen or carbon?

14. How does it get oxygen from the water?

15. Why do fish pant and struggle when taken from the water?

16. What fishes will live longest out of water?

17. What causes the fish taken out of water to die?