Note 2 — Chapter II · AT THE OLD WINDMILL

In a villa garden near Bombay Dr. Dimmock and myself found a tailor-bird’s nest built between two broad leaves neatly sewn together. Perhaps we looked too long at the pretty eggs to please the parent birds. Anyhow, during the night the birds managed to build another nest farther in through the shrubbery, and thither they had conveyed the eggs. Was this an instance of instinct or reason? Reason, I believe.