Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — The Orchard Oriole. [ARTICLE]

The Orchard Oriole.

A very pretty little story comes from Hartford, and It is true. A nest of the orchard oriole (Improperly called the “English robin”) was discovered by the owner of the lot, whose child wanted the young birds, and the child was duly gratified. The nest was taken home, to the delight of the child and the grief of the parent birds, and tho fledglings were placed in a cage outside the house. To the surprise of the person who had put them there, he found, one day, that the mother bird had discovered her lost children, and was feeding them through the wlres*of the. cage. This proof of parental affection in a bird was continued, till at length the person who had removed the nest from*lte place and put it in the cage was'moved to restore It to its place on the tree, with the young birds In It The unbounded delight of the old birds proved a full compensation for the sense of his—or, rather his child's—loss v by the restoration of tho young birds to their mother.