Show GIVE QUAKE ALARM nhen hen mexican parrot seeks high altitude people flee thoe those of tierra ballente Cal lente have syed S 8 ved thousands Tho und of live lives by givin giving warning of dis di tur bancea bances city at 0 mexico that geese eese once eared saved ancient rome from rom destruction nt at the hands of its enemies la Is a legend which bag has almost become a ruth but tho the parrots of At mexico exico particularly particular lv thosa of the tierra Cal callene lete te or hot country along the coast have saved thousands of at lives in real fact by div lag ing TV timing of approaching seismic disturbances not alone have the tamo tame parrots of which there Is ono one or more in almost every house in mexico done this but the wild hocks rocks down along the west coast have bave saved thon tho irinda ands of dot dol lare lars worth of bridges and other arll road construction work from destruct tion whenever there la Is a heavy beary storm coming the parrots silently take to the highest and thickest foil fell aged trees in the jungle but when an earthquake Is destined to come off within the next few hours every par rot ot in the country immediately seeks i bare open level levei dipace in tho the wild lorest and alights on the ground the parrot being exclusively an arboreal bird this la Is unusual in itself out in addition to this the birdi birds which are usually unbearably noley nolay become suddenly silent emitting now lad ind again a peculiar cry which they use hae at no other time this fact Is amply attested by engineers of the bouthern southern pacific and other railroads through the parrot infested parts darts of mexico what tho the wild pigeon once was in point of number numbers to the united states that the parrot of at varying shades of color and all sizes ie Is to mexico flight flights of these birds frequently t ly dark en n the midday sun in the Tio country ind they be cona so 0 o tame around the th canias of engineer engineers that the birds are given individual names and soon become regular petr whenever we saw the parrots iRr rots de do gerting the forest and lighting on the ground in the open spaces of the jungle we immediately withdrew the pile drivers from the bridges cald C J gheen ai an engineer just rb turned from 11 months work on the southern pacific in At mexico exico jn in which ho he passed the states of minaola and collma colima and a portion of the territory of topic the heart of the parrot country the birds said mr oreen green gave us euro sure warning of the approach of an earthquake and we never failed to heed their warning that we did not have trouble with the pile drivers and any steel or wooden besma u upright were sure to be toppled over in fact we e lost the greater part of one steel bridge because we did not pay attention to the parrots and take a great weight of cars loaded with stone ott off the outer and there Is of course no warning of those quakes and were it not tor for the parrots hundreds of the mexican Is laborers working around the pleis and abut abutments menta would have lost their lives in the towns of the ho hot country just previous to the last series of earthquakes one of which shocks was so disastrous to acapulco ico the people were warned by the struggles of ev ery parrot CO LIned in a cage throughout tho the length and breadth of mexico that earthquakes ere coming on for several hours before the heavy shocks began to como come the birds were making their low and plaintive earthquake cries as the natives call them and were trying to escape from their cages other engineers engl nears and white men who havo have spent much time in the junelea of at tropical america tell the same story monkey are afraid of 0 quakes and can feel them coming ns as well as 8 the birds but do not give such a plain warning merely currying scurrying for the tops top of the highest trees and quieting their cl chatter iatter when the aback Is beginning to be felt fell |