Eleanor's Bird is a bird Eleanor normally keeps in a cage. In the chapter "The Bird of Happiness", Diana and Meg steal the bird for the monthly gift, but suffocate in the process, and bet if Eleanor would be sad or angry upon finding its corpse. Eleanor did not get mad or sad, however, instead she took the dead bird and put in the monthly gift box with no reaction of emotion. It can be speculated that the red bird was always a doll, or Eleanor got a doll as a replacement for her dead pet.