A Song Of Thrift

In A Mynah Key

A good bank book is the foundation of a happy home, people say, and so, apparently, do the mynah birds.

On the island of Tanna, New Hebrides, recently an islander went to the local Commonwealth Savings Bank agency with the tattered remains of his bank book, and announced that his children had found it woven into the fabric of a mynah's nest in the crown of a coconut palm.

The book had apparently been dropped in the garden, and the mynah had recognised it as desirable building material.