THE OREGON 
46 
NATURALIST. 
sew up breist, and replace on stand to remain 
untildry. Place wings in position by pinning 
as in figure, three pins in each wing, leaving 
ends projecting. 
Fill head and throat with cotton. Smooth 
and arrange feathers on head. The eyes need 
not be put in until later. 
(to be continued ) 
HAVE ANIMALS REASON. 
Many attempts have been made by natural- 
ists, great and small to account for the actions 
of certain anima's at certain times, and places, 
without in the accounting, 
being enabled to 
totally cast aside a suspicion, which underlies 
that 
alone does not entirely sway those actions under 
the investigation, instinct and instinct 
observation. 
Let us take for instance the building propen- 
sities posessed by the ourang outang, not only 
oftimes will you find that a platform in a tree 
holds a family, but also a rationally construct- 
ed roof covers it. 
The cry of the advocates of instinct is ‘‘but 
it’s only a covering, a rude covering; his in- 
stinct; pure instinct impelis him to make a 
covering under which he can defy the hottest 
Might I ask, 
the exalted human family, build our homes? 
Is ib for 
realize we must 
rays Of the sun.”’ why do we, 
ornament, or rather because we, 
have shelter, and ornament 
comes as a secondary consideration, which fol- 
lows pride. 
Man originally was not born with a home 
ready for his occupancy. No, the rain beat on 
his shivering form, the wind whistled around 
him and he realized that in the full glare of 
the sun lurked So he builds himself a 
rude house, perhaps in time others settle near 
death 
him and ornamentation, the result of rivalry 
begins, as the ages roll, man will in the ex- 
perience of flood, storm and build 
that which more and more approaches the ap- 
wind, 
pearance of the modern dwelling. 
- 
What exercised th® impelling influence of 
Strength, refinement and beauty in the house 
ifit was not that same impelling necessity, 
(without we might add the higher mind which 
begets the refinement) which caused the ourang 
outang to build the first shelter and which had 
it possessed less brutality and naturally de- 
debased love of filth and low would 
have gradually emancipated and become a sort 
of secondary man. It is stated that apparent 
reasoning of the animal, is hereditary, that it is 
their natural bent to do certain acts which they 
no more can help than man can live without 
breathing. 
living, 
Let us take a child, cause it never 
to see man or his habitat will this child in 
its youth; build a shelter such perhaps, -as its 
parents did? will its first shelter not bea hole, 
ion; 
the next a house of boughs and finally of wood 
and stone? so with a young ape, does he build? 
no not until he has left the parent and necess- 
ity is his instructor does he weave a shelter 
for Where food is 
easily procured there will you find laziness, 
take the population of the United States, place 
them in the Tropics, if they create another new 
his family and himself. 
world, natures laws will be blasted in the do- 
ing. 
Let us take a wild dog attempt even after 
he is tamed, to teach him a trick, it is imposs- 
ible, his pups may and the next time will be 
found to have (under environment and quiet 
living) acquired a subtle someting which en- 
ables him to pick a card waltz and jue in a 
manner startling in brute. 
Because man has developed beyond beast he 
is master, let man descend through venality and 
debased living, into savagery ard he wili have 
only one liitle step to place him with the ape. 
R. Po PRUBLICH. 
406 Pleasant Ave. N. Y. C. 
THE VARIED THRUSH IN OREGON. 
This species is a very common winter resi- 
dent in Oregon, arriving in small flocks of 10 
to 20 soon after the first of Sept. They re-— 
