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it to the stomach upon an opportunity. And in the crop as well there is another behaviour, for, from the birds is one which is needy to feed it’s chick, so its return to the feed from nearby would be easy upon it. Al-Mufazzal said, ‘I said, ‘O my Masterasws! There are a people from the philosophers are alleging that the variation of the colours and the faces in the bird are, rather existing from before a mixture of inter-mingling and different pastures of theirs, and the chaos. Heasws said: ‘O Mufazzal! This decoration which you see in the peacock, and the pheasant, and the parrots are upon the same and parallel, like what is written with the pens, how it comes with the mixture borne upon one face, not different? And if it was with the chaos, the sameness would not be there, but it would be different. Contemplate a feather of the bird, how it is, and you will see it inter-woven like the weaving of the cloth from thin thread interlaced upon each other, like a composition of the thread to the thread, and the hair to the hair. Then, you see that weaving, if it is extended, it opens up a little, but it does not go apart for the wind to enter, so the bird would drop off when it (nest) flies. And you see in the middle of the feather, a heavy, solid column which has been woven upon by that which is like the hair to withhold it by its hardness, and it is the reed which is in the middle of the feather, and it, along with that, is hollow for it to be light upon the bird, and not hinder it from the flying. Have you seen, O Mufazzal, this bird with long legs? And you will understand what is for it from the benefits in having long legs, for most of the time it is in shallow water, and you see it with long legs as if it is a guard above a watchtower, and it is contemplating what is crawling in the water. So, when it sees something from what it anticipates with it gradually, with delicate steps until it catches it. And had it been of short legs and stepped near to the prey in order to seize it, its belly would have hit the water and it would have rippled and shook from it. Therefore, those pillars (long legs) have been Created for it, to achieve its needs by them and its aim would not be spoilt upon it. Contemplate the variety of arrangements in the creation of the bird, and you will find every bird with long legs being with the long neck, and that is to enable it to attain its food from the ground, and if the legs were long and a short neck, it would not have been able to attain anything from the ground. And sometimes it is assisted with the long neck by the long beak, in order to increase the matter of ease upon it, and enablement. Do you not see it; you do not investigate anything from the creation? And you would have it upon a peak of correctness and the Wisdom? Look at the sparrow how it seeks its meal by the day, and it does not