Hooked bill of Gull; 16.
Ornamental bill of male Puffin in breeding season.] "I know!" exclaimed Dodo, "toe-nails! Only I think they need cutting!" "Of course they are toe-nails," said the Doctor.

"Don't nails grow on the ends of toes?
All kinds of claws, on the ends of birds' and other animals' toes, are the same as nails.

Some are long, sharp, and curved, like a cat's or a Sparrow's, and some are flat and blunt, like ours.

I could show you some birds with claws that look just like our finger-nails.

Toes, too, are pretty much the same; only this Sparrow, like most other birds, has but four, with three of them in a line in front, and the other one pointing backward.