Show 1 1 7 dut bat tle the birds cound out oat their mistake take some sports recently took place at a station in upper burmah one of the events being what is popularly known as a victoria cross raw race that is the competitors have bave to tad ride some distanced distance taking two or three hurdles on their way to a point where there are arranged a number of figures shaped like hum human bodies then they dismount fire a round of blank cartridges pick up a dummy each and race back says pearsons weekly in this case after s the sports were over the dummies were left on the ground and in about halt half an hour after the ground was deserted I 1 noticed a vulture settle on the ground close cloie to the duni dummies mies in about another five minutes aiutes more than 30 had collected the birds seemed much puzzled as they carefully inspected each lay figure walking from one to the next all along the line and eventually after sitting sitt ingin in a circle for a short time flew away y the birds must have hate eli discovered vered the du dummies manies by sight though I 1 have often heard that vultures rely on their sense bense of smell as well |