Eureka Reporter | 1909-08-06 | Page 4 | Swifter than the Pigeon

SWIFTER THAN THE PIGEON swallow easily outdistances compan ions in flight between corn com plagne and antwerp A citizen of antwerp has put to a test the celerity and homing instinct of the swallow as compared with pigeons a R london correspondent ol 01 the new york sun r says ays he lie caught a swallow in its nest under his roof at antwerp made a red mark on its feathers and sent the bird with a con sign ment of carrier pigeons by train to in northern france a distance of miles the birds were released there sim at 7 15 the next morning the swallow without the slight slightest esthes hes citation made for the north and dis learea like a flash the pigeons cir cled laboriously around before deela ing which direction they shaula should talc take e the swallow reached its nest in antwerp in 67 minutes while the pigeons took four hours and seven minutes to cover the distance in ether cither words the messenger of spring few ew at the rate of nearly miles an hour flour while the speed of the pigeons only slightly exceeded 35 miles an hour bour