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Show A Wonderful Sense of Smell. The buzzard's wonderful sense of smell is a curious subject that has often been discussed, the discussion of the matter having resulted in a general uniformity of opinion among scientists that they locate lo-cate their food by their sense of smell alone. C. L. Hopkins, the noted biologist, says that he has noticed that in Florida they never leave the roots where the night is spent, especially on damp, foggy mornings, until the moisture has been dried by the sun. They then move slowly across the wind until a "scent" is Btruck, when they move more Blowly "up the wind" until the carrion is located. Sometimes Some-times they will drif t down the wind past their prey, until they have struck the scent, which they follow up until they have found the object of their search, sometimes in the densest thickets. Mr. Hopkins says that ho has upon several occasions killed wild hogs in the thickets, and after dressing them and taking what meat he wished would see twenty or more buzzards coming down with the wind. On one occasion they had discovered discov-ered some animal remains he had covered up, and on another had found a dead onake which he had buried. St. Louis Republic. |