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animals. All the birds — canaries, finches, cardinals, doves and 

 paraquets — were placed together. When the nesting season came, 

 the children of the lower grades, as was their yearly custom, wove 

 baskets for nests, and these were placed in the bushes and trees. 

 One canary, which was born in the Kindergarten, and spent four 



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A canary's nest. The string is woven around and through the nest. 



years of her life there, refused the kind of nest that she had been 

 accustomed to occupy, and constructed one of her own out of the 

 material collected from the ground, as shown by the accompanying 

 photograph. 



John Burroughs, in a recent article, "Do Animals Think?" 

 says, '' The family of birds to which the canary belongs are not 

 weavers; they build cup-shaped nests . . ." This nest has a dis- 

 tinctive weaving stitch, and the string, either accidentally or inten- 

 tionally, is run around and through the nest. If the bird has 

 " human intelligence," there is no reason wdiy she should not 

 have learned the " coil," as it is the first attempt at weaving 

 taught the children. If it was accidental, then the bird certainly 

 used the string to the best economy for the strength of the nest. 

 If in her new environment and larger life, instinct came to the 



