NATURE'S CRAFTSMEN 



sympathy with those lowly brothers who with us possess 

 the earth. 



If the dexterous use of natural threads of various sorts 

 in the construction of homes be a test of tailoring, 



A BALTIMORE ORIOLE AND ITS NEST 



many birds may be grouped with tailoring animals. 

 The long, stocking-like nest of the Philippine weaver 

 bird is a fine example of the use of dried grass by a 

 process which closely resembles the familiar "darning" of 

 domestic life/ The vireo gleans the silken tissue of the 

 spider's web, and, drawing it out and twisting it into 

 strings, weaves and felts it into her nest. Our Baltimore 

 oriole has the same ingenious habit, and with its bill for a 



^ The original photographic studies of bird figures were made from 

 specimens in the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia. 



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