{"newspaper_name": "The Washingtonian.", "edition": "01", "page": "p4", "byline": ""}
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INSTINCT OF B1RDs.-We have received, says
the Boston Traveller, from lady Of our ac-
quaintance, the following illustration of the
instinct of birds. Two young birds had built
their nest in her garden, and there laid their
eggs and hatched their young. The lady hav-
ing occasion to pass by the nest one day, stop.
ped to admire the little birds. On her return
to the garden, after an absence of a short time,
the mother bird came whirling and screaming
around her, flying SO near as almost to touch
the lady's head; this she continued to do un-
til the lady, suspecting that there was some
trouble with the young birds, went to the nest.
She there found snake in the act of swallow
ing the second of the three birds. She was in
season to save only one of the three.