Show MARVE marvelous LOUb GIFT OF BIRDIS homing pigeons pignona able to make their roosts boosts in pitchy darkness although AIho utti are not placed near the luimit BU imal line ot of evolution their ability to fly gives them advantage or neaily all the mam mammilla malla their mysterious power ot changing their polarity or weight in order to dive in water or fly has been ottea often discussed end and the almost incredible velocity of their motion when malgrat ing sometimes amounting to fout our inika a minute for tabt distances has no parallel among other A series of cageful trials rials with carrier r pigeons re potted from trance shoes patently ap Altho tit doubt their pos session of a highly developed sense of direction it atao aa supposed that homing pigeons depended upon to had find their way may but thence experiments have lave been conducted between Cei eroes etnes and roann la in the darkness of 0 night in twenty minutes the first blid bird dla dis patched at 10 p ni reached its a distance di stanco of seventeen miles being traver travers sid cd halt half of tho the number ar tided before midnight and the remainder fol followed loed in a few hours houra |