Mr. John Lewis Childs tells in the _Auk_ an instance of a
shrike he shot in Florida. The bird flew and tried to alight
in a tree, but was unable to do so and fell to the ground. As
Mr. Childs approached to capture him, the bird struggled up and
fluttered away with difficulty, uttering a cry of distress.
Immediately another of his kind darted out of a tree, flew to
his wounded companion, and circled about him and underneath him,
buoying him up as he was about to sink to the ground. These
tactics were repeated continually, the birds rising higher and
flying farther away till they had gone nearly out of sight and
safely lodged in the top of a tall pine-tree.--OLIVE THORNE
MILLER, “The Bird Our Brother.”
(1393)
=Helpfulness as Testimony=--See WITNESS OF SERVICE.