Origin of bird's long beak

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Origin of bird's long beak.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2343.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 14
Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 5
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 197 197.— THE CEYSTAL BALL.
Finnish The Kalevala , Rune XIX
Australian Aboriginal Australian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales , 2 The Galah, and Oolah the Lizard

Within the index

Filed under Origin and nature of bird's beak.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Where kingfisher got his long beak Where snipe got his long beak Why loon has big beak Where hornbill got his big beak. (Cf. A2241.9.)

Filed beside it

Why bird's beak is colored Origin of other features of birds' beak

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