28. Why is the pigeon such a thirsty bird?
29. How does a swallow feed?
30. Tell me of the shrike, or butcher bird.
31. What different kinds of food do birds eat?
32. What can you tell me of the woodpecker family?
33. Will you tell me how and why birds migrate?
34. Tell me the history of the bobolink.
35. Describe an oriole’s nest.
36. Tell me about a humming-bird’s nest.
37. How do some birds ornament their nests?
38. Do birds ever build a roof over their nests?
39. What are some of our best singing birds?
40. What can you tell me of the blue jay?
41. Tell me how birds care for and defend their young.
42. What birds lay eggs in other birds’ nests?
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?
18. Where and what is the bladder of the fish?
19. Tell me about the backbone of the fish.
20. What can you say of the other bones of a fish?
21. What do you know about the scales?
22. What senses have fish?
23. How many senses have you? Name them.
24. What kind of blood have fish?
25. Is a whale a fish? What is it?
26. What are some of the largest fishes?
27. What are some of the smallest?
28. Do fishes differ much in form?
29. How do they differ in regard to their eyes?
30. What fishes have no scales?
31. What do some fish have instead of scales?
32. Will you describe fish of the ray family?
33. Describe flat fish.
34. What other odd forms of fish do you remember?
35. Tell me about some queer forms of fish heads and noses.
36. What are some of the weapons of fish?
37. For what do they use these weapons?
38. What can you tell me about the breast fins of fish?
39. To what do the breast fins sometimes change?
40. How are fishes able to climb trees?
41. What do you know about flying fish?
42. What are barbels?
43. What fishes have barbels?
44. Where do the fin family live?
45. How are sea fishes divided?
46. Do fishes ever go from salt to fresh water?
47. For what reason do some fish leave the sea and ascend rivers?
48. Tell me how air is put into tanks of water for fish.
49. How do fish behave if they have not enough air?
50. How does air get into the water of seas, lakes, and rivers?
51. How do fish sometimes help themselves to surface air?
52. What do fishes eat?
53. What is the basking of fish?
54. How are fishes kept in glass tanks?
55. Tell me of some of the queer ways of fish.
56. What about the fighting of fish?
57. How does a fish act when he darts after his food?
58. What are fish eggs called before they are laid?
59. What are they called when first dropped in the water?
60. What are the little fish called soon after they hatch?
61. What do we mean by a school, or shoal, of fish?
62. What can you tell me about skate and dog-fish eggs?
63. How will you know the egg-sacs of a skate from those of a dog-fish?
64. How do the mackerel and herring leave their eggs?
65. What can you say of the numbers of the eggs of fish?
66. What kind of a nest does the trout make for her eggs?
67. Where and when can you find perch eggs?
68. What can you tell me of the shape and colors of scales?
69. What can you tell me of the scales of the side line of the fish?
70. Of what use is this slipperiness to a fish?
71. Why is it hard for a bird or fish to get a partly swallowed fish
from its throat?
72. Tell me about some pretty fish.
73. Have all fishes teeth?
74. What can you say of the number of teeth in many fishes?
75. Where are these teeth set?
76. What do the French call “teeth in velvet”?
77. What can you tell me about the shape of fish teeth?
78. What kind of a fish is a stickleback?
79. How have some of his fins changed?
80. Tell me about the way sticklebacks can be caught.
81. Tell me something of their habits.
82. How does the stickleback build his home?
83. What do the eggs look like?
84. How does this little father take care of his family?
85. What is one of our largest river fish?
86. How are sturgeon often caught?
87. What do the Russians make from sturgeon?
88. What kind of candles do the Cossacks often have?
89. What are some of the things made from the shark?
90. What can you tell me about the shark?
91. Of what use are fish?
92. How can you learn more about fish?
93. Why in these Readers have you been told a little of many things?
94. Do you think you know a little about how to use your eyes as you go
about the world?
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Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. The following
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