| Show THAT HINi OWN You are not accustomed to think ol ot birds as aR surgeons hut but It Is in true that lint the lite woodcock S the partridge and some Rome other 01 her birds are able ft We to dresa 8 their theli Wounds with considerable skill A Fraieli naturalist t says sn fI that on several occasions ocra lons he hI has hall killed woodcocks that tho t were wre when shot convalescing lIn from Wounds previously received In every Instance he found the tilt old Injury neatly neati dressed with down plucked from Crom the stern stem of feathers and skillfully ar arranged arrange ranged range over oer the wound evidently bj by b bythe the long beak of or tin till bird In sortie some In Instances Instances stances n a solid plaster planter was thus thull formed orm l lana and ana In to others ligatures hall hail bedl applied to wounded II II Id or broken br ken limbs II III One Ont day he killed n A bird that evident evi evidently I Ident dently dent hull ball been wounded at ot some Bottle recent The rho wound was cowered covered and protected plOt tell by lIy ti n a sort lort of ot net nel network network work of feather feathery which had hAil been Len plucked by b tile the bird from its ItH own body hody and HO so arranged as It to form firm a plaster completely covering and amI protecting the wounded surface It hind hall evidently acted nil fix In the first place mill and nn os a n shield cowering covering the wound The J wre were fairly netted together toRether passing alternate alternately under and above inch Mich other and antI form formIn forming ing In a textile fabric of oe great creat protective power potter are often found whose limbs limb have peen been broken braken by b shot shunt with the fractured ends neatly Joined and ligat ed cU M MI 1 tells of oC a n woodcock that had hat been shot by b a 11 sportsman on the afternoon of aC a n certain day da After a long search Reared the bird bind was WM given Riven hen up ur but It was lIIS discovered dIH the next morning by b nn tut accident In the meantime the tho wounded le legs n were found to bo be w ne neatly neaU ll an nn exquisitely neat bandage hawing been leen placed around each wounded wound ed eel limb Time The poor bird however had hlll hadIn hadin In in sing It Its 1111 wound entangled Its with sonic some lon Ion long soft soll feathers leathers am and hail had H it I not been Ileen discovered It would have hal died of ot starvation |
