Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1920 — “Divorcee” Among Birds. [ARTICLE]

“Divorcee” Among Birds.

Our little feathered friends took ai tumble in the estimation of their ad-i mlrers, who have cited them as models of “mates forUife.” “Divorces’ 1 have been discovered in birdland! The biological survey, Department of Agriculture, Is responsible for this new blow at the sanctity of the marriage vows. “Bird divorces,” it says, first were suggested by information obtained from a Cleveland bird lover, the first user of trapping methods adopted by the biological survey. “He found,” says the announcement, “that in one case, at least, a retrapped bird had remated (though the former mate still was alive) and was rearing a brood with its new mate, just as It had done with its first love.” The extent to which birds “divorce” themselves from their mates and start on new material careers is one of the sidelights which will be developed In new studies now under way.—Washington Star.