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Show Speed of Birds. Express trains nt their fastest, motor mo-tor cars defying the law, cannot com paro, ln re'sect of speed, with tho doings of sdino birds. It Is Impossible Impossi-ble to say how fast the frlgato bird could fly If put on Its mettle. It has been timed to do 100 miles an hour In calm air, but Its velocity seoms to depend upon Its own Inclination In-clination rather than on nny limit to Its powers. Among wild fowl, tho mallard covers from forty-flvo to fifty miles an hour, tho pintail from fifty to sixty miles ln an hour, tho widgeon from slxty-llvo to seventy-flvo miles, tho gadwall from sixty to seventy miles, tho pochard from eighty to ninety miles, tho teal from eighty to 100 miles. Tho common swift can fly at tho rato of ninety miles nn hour, clearly proving a good title to its name. Of game birds, tho speed of tho pheasant Is thirty-eight miles an hour, and that of tho partrldgo thirty-two miles. |