This Sparrow can say 'Peabody,' and some kinds of Parrots can repeat whole sentences so as to be understood.

That is another thing in which birds' beaks are like our mouths.

Now look again--can you see anything else about the Sparrow's beak ?" "I see a pair of little holes at the root of the upper mandible," said Rap.
"Well, those are the nostrils!" said the Doctor.

"Birds must breathe, like ourselves, and when the beak is shut they breathe through the nostrils." "So do I," said Dodo; and then she pursed up her pretty red lips tightly, breathing quite hard through her nose.

"I do think," she said, when she had finished this performance, "birds have faces, with all the things in them that we have--there are the eyes, too, on each side, like people's eyes, only they look sideways and not in front.