Box Elder News Journal | 1905-06-08 | Page 7 | Marvelous Gift of Birds

MARVELOUS GIFT OF BIRDS homing pigeons able to ta make their roasts boosts in pitchy darkness although birds are not placed near tho the summit line of evolution their ability to fly gives elves them advantage over nearly all the mammilla mam malta malla their mysterious power ot of changing their polarity or weight in order to dive in water or fly lias has been often discussed and the almost incredible velocity of 0 their motion when migrating sometimes amounting to lour four miles a minute for vast distances distance has no parallel among other animals A series ot of cartful trials with carrier pigeons ic ie ported from france shows apparently without doubt their possession of a highly developed sense of direction it was as supposed that homing pigeons depended upon sight to find their way tay but these experiments have been conducted between cerepes and roann in tho the darkness ot of night in twenty minutes the first bird dl dispatched S at 10 p m reached its roost a distance of seventeen miles being traversed halt half ot of tho the number arrived before midnight and the remainder mal followed in a few hours