Show av LOWS M FLIGHT IS RAPID speed of miles an hour deyarmin ed in an experiment the french fre scientific weekly ciel cie et terre pilots an interesting article about the speed of several birds as ob lemed br august curin of antwerp the rapidity ut of flight credited to the swallow feet a second seemed exaggerated to bilm and he un somo experiments on his own hooky tie sent seat several basel of pigeon 10 lo france a 1 in a separate cago cage a swallow wl aih had ita nest under the gable gabla root roof f of the railroad station at antwerp on november 7 at 72 0 in the morning all the birds were liberated at Com tho the swallow took a norths n i direction as quick as lightning while the pigeons made several selja s in the air before they started in the same direction the swallow arrive at its nest in antwerp at a nuri binler or of witnesses being present at its arival a rival the first pigeons only arrived at their desti destination nalon at 11 0 of tte tle same morning tho the swallow hid therefore covered the entire distance of miles in one hour and IS minutes which Is lenual to a speed of 0 miles an hour or about feet a second which is about double the speed of an express train tho the pigeons only deac i cached cd a speed of 35 miles an hour or 48 foot feet a second it may be gathered froni from these figures how flow rapidly the migrations of the swallows take place as with the speed given above it would require only hait bait a lay day to fly flora belgium or central achl al germany to L africa i s |