Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — A Cartons Bird Story. [ARTICLE]

A Cartons Bird Story.

L. Page and son have been cutting wood on Albright's place in the foothills, near San Jose. They had noticed tor several days that a number of birds remained constantly upon a tree near them, some going ana coming from time to time. Upon catting down the tree they discovered a limb with a hollow cavity, some two feet in length and three or four inches in diameter, in which were two full-grown

birds of some goodly-sized species. There was a small aperture through which the birds were supplied with food from their mates. Hie limb was cut and the birds liberated. Thev were neither of them able to fly, having evidently never been out of their Imprisonment. How they came Inside is a question. It is more than probable that the mother bird was small, and though able to make her nest In the hollow of the tree and rear her young, could not extricate them, and they aid not gain strength enough to help themselves until the hollow had so closed that escape was impossible. Those who examined the birds think they are about two years old. They have been fed from their birth by their bird-fellows .through th« aperture in the limb of the free. A nobler instance of devotion even the human family never exhibited.— Ban Jot* (Cal.) Mercury.