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— most wonderful instinct, how could it have originated— spins thread of cotton.—¹ do p. 583, It APPEARS probable,«?» that the Hippopotamus occurs in India. in the Jungles of Borabhum & Dholbum.—^{b 2}



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1. Hutton 1833:503 describes nests of the Tailor Bird (Sylvia Sutoria, Lath.), ‘The first was neatly formed of raw cotton and bits of cotton threads, woven strongly together, thickly lined with horse-hair and supported between two leaves on a twig of the amaltás tree (cassia fistula).’ See T2 and Natural selection:473. ‘But in all cases in which intelligence comes into play, the animal must to a certain extent know what it wants to do. . . . The Tailor Bird weaves threads of cotton, with which to sew up the edge of a leaf to form its wonderful nest; but it has been seen to pick up and use pieces of artificially made thread, which shows that it before hand knows for what purpose it spins the cotton; though it cannot know that it makes its suspended nest that its eggs may be hatched, and its young reared safe from snakes and other enemies.’ 2. Tickell 1833:582−83.

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