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Mriga Pakshi Sastra
OR Science of Animals and Birds.
(790LOGY IN INDIRI
PART II. Description of Birds.
22nd GROUP.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF BIRDS
Like quadrupeds, such as elephants, horses, cows, bulls, buffaloes
and other Rajasa and Tamasa animals birds like swan, parrots, cuckoos,
peacocks, crows, wag-tails and other birds do help people by pleasure,
amusements etc. All birds live in nests. Some of the birds build their
nests to live both in summer and rainy seasons, with their beaks, legs and wiugs by weaps of, fibres, soft cotton, and small pieces of wood, leaves, and straw etc., on the branches of trees, some on the
trunks of the trees and sone on towers and mountains and elevated
places. Though they could not spza kr like human beings, they are very
clever. They generally live in crowds and attack their epemy birds collectively. They get their food, water, fruits, flạeh, insects.etc...with their beaks and eat them with their comrades. They enjoy all kinds of
