Show Bird Able to F Foretell Good and Bad Seasons Many wild willi creatures have ha uncanny uncanny un un- canny cunny ways of or forecasting the weather er writes 0 O. O G G. G Pike the naturalist In Lon London on Tit Bits They know to toa toa toa a certainty certainly when a n violent chan change chance e Is approaching and those of us lIS wh who can rend read the secrets of or the fields J are Ii often orten able to predict coming gales or storms with more moro certainty than our meteorological office One can cnn lIn understand a bird or mammal mammal mammal mam mam- mal having a n presentiment of or a gale or storm which Is likely to arrive within a few hours but what can canone canone canone one think of ot wild birds that are abl able to arrange their domestic affairs according nc ac cording to time the kind of weather they mire Ire going to live through months ahead The spotted bower bird of western Australia Is able to accomplish this Her usual clutch of eggs Is two but she varies the number accor according ing to the amount of oC food she will be able to collect for her fancily family when they arrive If It a n good season Is approachIng approach approach- Ing she will lay three eg eggs s for tor Instinct Instinct In In- tells her that food will b bT plentiful If a long drouth Is on Its way she gives I up domestic affairs entirely for that season If It moderate moderate moderate ate weather is expected a single egg is laid The mating season is about t six weeks ahead of ot the actual hatchIng hatchIng hatching hatch- hatch Ing so she has to work out her problems problems lems well In advance |