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For a long time this anecdote was a solitary example, 
but a short time since we received a pendant to the same from 
the pen of a very old friend of ours, Herr Yon Pietruvsky, 
of Galatia. He possessed two tame Linnets, both males : 
these were always sworn enemies and were continually 
quarrelling: after some time the stronger of the two was 
attacked with cramp in the legs, when the other 
immediately forgot the old grudge and fed its enemy 
and rival from its own crop. The same observer 
noticed a female mule, a cross between a Canary and 
Goldfinch, which fed its mother during a whole winter, 
after the latter had become quite exhausted by the arduous 
duties of the breeding-season. In the following winter 
Pietruvsky placed the two in a large cage, together with 
sixteen other birds, when the daughter again resumed her 
work of love, and nourished the parent bird. Freiherr 
von Seyffertitz kept a Golden Eagle in a cage, which they 
fed with suitable animals, both live and dead. Once the 
keeper gave the Eagle a Buzzard, which he had just 
caught: the Eagle looked upon the victim with a murderous 
glance, ruffled its plumage, drew itself proudly together, 
and with a scream appeared to entertain the design of 
rushing upon its feeble adversary. The eye of the 
Buzzard had watched in mortal terror these preparations 
for its destruction, and looking imploringly up at the 
powerful foe before it, the bird uttered a loud and agonizing 
cry. The Eagle remained for some time motionless; sud¬ 
denly, however, pity conquered thirst for blood; to be brief, 
it not only allowed the Buzzard to live, but soon after 
became its fast friend and willingly shared with it both 
meat and drink. It so happened one day, after these two 
birds had lived together for some time very happily, that 
the Buzzard contrived by some means to effect its escape; 
