Show how birds bathe the most elaborate dressers of the animal world are the birds nil all of whom take taka baths batha whenever possible some of them use earth sand or dust when thee find a suitable spot they scratch up the surface and rind thin then shuffle backward moving legs and wings and working the grit arlt right through their feathers most birds however are water blathers some such as the kingfisher plunge right in this bird usually dives from a branch entering tile the water with open wings and making a great splash in addition to ills his morning toilet the kingfisher lias has a complete bath after eating fish that he be catches so that he often takes a dozen doben headers during the day |