Show 11 SIXTH SENSE IN BIRDS experiments with carrier pigeons prove its possession ealon although birds are not placed near the summit line ot of evolution their ability to fly by gives them advantages over nearly all the mam mammal malla their in mysterious cerious power of changing their polarity or weight in order to dive in water or fly has been often dis C cussed sed and the almost incredible velocity ot of their motion when migrating sometimes amounting to four miles a minute tor for vast distances has no par albel among other animals A series of careful trials with car rier der pigeons shows apparently without doubt their possession of a highly de sense of direction in t twenty wenty minutes the first bird dispatched at 10 p in reached its roost a distance of seventeen miles being traversed halt half of the number arrived before midnight and the remainder followed in a few hours |