Eureka Reporter | 1904-02-05 | Page 4 | These Birds Are Ingenious

or THESE BIRDS ARE INGENIOUS i 1 use spectacle ae frames and clock springs foi altheir nesta nest the crows ottoe orient are asat 0 be tar far advanced n the art of stealing tg beyond ohp the crows of this country the story Is told of a pair of crows at bom dom bay that robbed an optician of spec epee bacle flames entering bis his room re heated y for that purpose these birds ca carried rrie off eight four e frames 0 go d silver and steel which were s kg I 1 in enviously enious ly woven together in their lies t that it was a veritable work of at a t in the swiss museum of natural his tory at is a wagtail s nest built entirely of clock springs several clockmakers shops were here near where the waste lay scattered about the doors this the birds had woven with auch rauch ingene ty into a nest more than tor for four inches across and entirely comfortable for the little family