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Questions from the original Key to the Nature Library to send you back into Game Birds — and out of doors.

1. What birds are nearest to the reptilian ancestral type?
2. In what family are the wings mere flippers?
3. What is the bird that laughs?
4. What bird has a sense of humour?
5. What birds are called by sailors "Mother Cary's chickens"?
6. What bird walks on the water?
7. What birds were trained to fish in the days of John Milton?
8. What quality of flesh have fish-eating ducks?
9. What is the quality of the flesh of mallards?
10. What is the most beautiful American duck?
11. What food gives its renowned flavour to the canvasback?
12. What is the pathetic life history of the American eider duck?
13. Read the description of the migration of the Canada goose.
14. What bird's note sounds like the creaking of a wooden pump?
15. Examples of protective coloration.
16. What birds throw a fish about from one to another as if in play?
17. What is the meaning of the simile, "As thin as a rail"?
18. What are the habits of the sandhill crane?
19. Why has the beach robin the name of King Canute?
20. What differences in character separate the American from the European quail?
21. What is the Bob White's unique manner of sleeping?
22. How does the Canada grouse pursue his courtship?
23. What is the prairie chicken's dance?