Show F S I t R S Cat Came i I i Back I HE birds that build their nests near i iIII your house this spring probably will be the thee same ame e ones that camped near you last year l ip claims H. H Knight Horsfield in his new new J 5 1 0 ok k Sidelights on Birds Patriotism o or t he instinct of seeking old homes year after L year ear is highly developed in birds the very ii fields and nd woods which constitute home for them ithem being year after year IJ How do they find their way back Horsfield w writes ites that the strange way finding power of i r migratory birds is leading up to the idea that t there exists in birds an occult power which i XA j may be class classed d as a f food finding sense sep j f arate from and additional to to the five sense senses possessed by p people ople and animal life Some of us who are considered queer m merely rely ha have ve a sixth or psychic ense sense Birds are very human Horsfield com corn ments He thinks the lure that makes th them m ret return rn to former homes is their passionate attachment for their native lands their lands their tru true home home in in which the most fascinating peri period oJ of their heir lives Jives is spent Horsfield also claims that certain bird families have distinct sense of the rights of property Sometimes they fight and drive out invaders of what they consider consider con con- con I sider their exclusive territory With r rw ks it is clear that a given belt of trees is marked out as the property of a particular colony In other words a fence All of us have recognized in cats and ind nd dogs this instinct which brings birds back to their former homes As the old saying goes The cat came back tt But the cat will witt not comeback come comeback back unless it has affection for its old home or kittens that t need its care according to Professor Professor Pro Pro- Professor fessor F. F H. H Herrick of Western Vestern Reserve uni uni- J S I S The Thc cat says Herrick returns returns' home by vy S the power of f orientation a sense ens of direction This power of orientation is a keen S sense nse of V muscular feeling f far fr r keener than that possessed pos pos- by the the human human body By it a cat knows instantly in which direction home horne lies through the feeling of its muscles It is a V sense of direction in its most acute form tt ttA A dog owned by Frank Farrow re recently was sold and sent by express from D Denver Donver nver tsa to ts toa a town miles away way It returned home limping |