Origin and nature of bird's beak

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Origin and nature of bird's beak.

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

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Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XV

Cited in the index

general Dh III 26.

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Filed under Origin of animal characteristics: face.

3 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

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