. Homing with the birds; the history of a lifetime of personal experience with the birds. Birds. HOW THE BIRDS KNOW 317 tion, resulting from what we should call "original thought and plan" in the case of a human, since the bird to my knowledge had no precedent. If orioles the world over have been building with windows, and tying slip knots scientists and natu- ral historians have forgotten to mention it. I reproduced two views of this nest in a book of mine, "Friends inFeathers," pubhshed in 1917. Ever since, I have hunted for oriole nests, hoping to find other birds in reb
. Homing with the birds; the history of a lifetime of personal experience with the birds. Birds. HOW THE BIRDS KNOW 317 tion, resulting from what we should call "original thought and plan" in the case of a human, since the bird to my knowledge had no precedent. If orioles the world over have been building with windows, and tying slip knots scientists and natu- ral historians have forgotten to mention it. I reproduced two views of this nest in a book of mine, "Friends inFeathers," pubhshed in 1917. Ever since, I have hunted for oriole nests, hoping to find other birds in rebellion against accepted form, but with no success until the spring of 1919, while I was at work on this book, one of my field men brought me the nest here reproduced. This bird had attempted a window and failed. She made it too small and too high. Lacking the ingenuity and brain power of the other bird, yet having the window idea in her head, she compromised by shortening the hammock, in which she swung her nest, until raised by the di- ameter of her eggs, she could bi'oodand look from the top of the nest. Truly, the old bird lover was right when he said in passing: "The birds ; Quite as remarkable as the oriole nests with windows is a double vireo nest, found and photo- graphed by Professor Lynds Jones, ornithologist of Oberlin College, reproduced in Dawson's "Birds. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company
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