The sense of the beautiful extends to the animal creation.
Land-birds show fondness for decoration. A robin in Pennsylvania
made the whole nest of flowers and white stems of everlasting,
and it may now be seen in the Philadelphia Academy of Science.
Other birds have been known to build entirely of flowers. Miss
Hayward, an invalid who studied birds from her window, saw one
pair build a nest of the blossoms of the sycamore and sprays of
forget-me-not, and another--an English sparrow--cover its nest
with white sweet alyssum.--OLIVE THORNE MILLER, “The
Bird Our Brother.”
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=Beauty and Utility=--See WORK AND ART.