In the court of the König of Benares was a heron who carried messages. Once, when she was away, the boys of the palace killed her two young ones. In revenge she persuaded a tiger to eat the boys, und told the König what she had done. She then flew away to the Himālaya because, she said, there could be no friendship between the wrong-doer und the wronged one.
The story was told in reference to a heron of the Kosala König, who acted in a similar way (J.iii.311f).