218 ORCHARD ORIOLE. 
and evidently dissatisfied, fluttering about the cage as if seeking 
to get out; but when the cage was placed on the same table with 
the candle, it seemed extremely well pleased, fed and drank, 
drest, shook, and arranged its plumage, sat as close to the light 
as possible, and sometimes chanted a few broken irregulai’ notes 
in that situation, as I sat writing or reading beside it. 1 also 
kept a young female of the same nest, during the greatest part 
of winter, but could not observe, in that time, any change in its 
plumage. 
