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