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And strange to say that while this last scene was being enacted 
in the aviary, the indigo finch went to the side of the wounded 
bird as if to be of greater security, which was needed during the 
bird’s indisposition. 
Such was the change in this motley flock of birds, that all but 
the indigo finch and the female cutthroat feared her mate. 
For fear of accident I removed the two finches, male and female, 
to a cage by themselves, where they remained for some days, when 
at last the female died from injuries sustained, as I believe, through 
the attacks of the female Java sparrow while the birds were en- 
route from Chicago here. 
After her death, I again placed the disconsolate mate back into 
the large cage where, for many weeks, no song was heard from 
him, and at anytime one could witness the two friends, the indigo 
and cutthroat finches, sitting as closely as possible to each other 
upon the perch, and as far as possible from the other birds. 
And again, many times did I permit the door of their cage to 
be left open that all the birds might fly about in a large room if 
y so wished, and in every instance one of these friends did not 
leave the cage without the other one following, and when tired of 
flying about they would nestle together, side by side, upon some 
Picture frame and there in mutual sympathy commune by thought 
one 
Truly these were friends and their sympathies went out to con- 
sole one another. There was no more fighting in this cage and 
ough a long time passed before a song was heard from the af- 
eg mate, when it did come it was but a feeble melancholy 
I . 
Several of the birds in this cage were kept together for nearly 
two years, of the number, the four above referred to, and in all 
that time there was no more fighting nor was there any lack of 
friendship between the two bird friends referred to here. 
At last, when I found I could no longer care for my birds as I 
ought to, they were forwarded to St. Louis, Mo., and though some 
upon the way, I believe the most of them are at this day in 
= Zodlogical Gardens of that city —D. H. Talbot, Sioux City, 
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