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Excerpt from Birds' Nests: An Introduction to the Science of Caliology
It is a somewhat remarkable fact that notwithstanding the extreme popularity of the subject of Bird's Nests, no book has yet been published entirely devoted to these beautiful and curious objects. And yet their study - the science of Caliology - is one of the most fascinating branches of Ornithology, perhaps more intimately connected with those difficult problems and questions relating to the mental attributes of what man in his ignorance is pleased to consider the "lower animals," than any other. Indeed, there are many of us who would fain deny the existence of any reasoning faculties whatever in birds, classing their expression in a thousand different ways, all under the vague, meaningless and ridiculous term "Instinct."
A bird's nest is the most graphic mirror of a bird's mind. It is the most palpable example of those reasoning, thinking qualities with which these creatures are unquestionably very highly endowed.
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