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The young are fed with insects, and 
particularly with caterpillars; the parents 
are unusually assiduous in the care oflcieir 
young, and will assault violently those who 
attempt to disturb them during this occu- 
pation. Latham says it has been known 
that the female has suffered herself to be 
taken with the nest and eggs, and con- 
tinued sitting upon them (even when con- 
fined in a cage) until she died. 
The young associate with their parents 
long after their full growth, and even till 
the succeeding year. The young male 
resembles its female parent until the first 
moulting is completed. 
It was asserted by the ancients that the 
young of this bird were excluded by 
degrees, and in detached parts, and that 
the first object of the parents w as to collect 
and combine the scattered limbs, and by 
virtue of a certain herb, to form them into 
an animated whole. 
The Golden Oriole, or as it has been 
called the Golden Thrush or Witwall, is, 
during the summer months, an inhabitant 
of many of the temperate and warmer parts 
