Beak

The point of anything the bill of a bird. The beak is a conspicuous feature in all birds, and consists of an upper and lower half. The upper half is commonly articulated with the skull in a more or le immovable manner. The parrot po e es this feature in its greatest perfection, but it exists in a le complete form in many birds. In no recent birds are teeth ever devel¬ Bea'ver. oped, though rudiments of teeth have been recognized in some parrots, and fo il birds have of the temperate climates of the globe, being