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FOR six days I have been for two or three hours in the club reading-room, where there is a large mirror. During all this time a cock and hen sparrow have been flirting with and bowing to their images in the glass with evident pleasure—rushing along the mantel-shelf, flying to the top of the frame, or resting for a time, always apparently happy in contemplation, never showing disappointment.
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CONSTABLE, F. Birds and Mirrors. Nature 34, 76 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034076g0
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