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Show SWIFTER THAN THE PIGEON. Swallow Easily Outdistances Companions Compan-ions In Flight Between Com-plegne Com-plegne and Antwerp. A citizen of Antwerp has put to a test tho celerity and homing instinct of tho swallow as compared with pigeons, a London correspondent of v tho New York Sun says. Ho caught a Bwallow in its nest under his roof at Antworp, mado a red mark on Its feathers nnd sont the bird with a consignment con-signment of 250 carrlor pigeons by trnln to Complegne, In northern Franco, a dlstanco of 147 miles. The birds wero released thero simultaneously sim-ultaneously nt 7:15 tho next morning. Tho swallow without the slightest hesitation hes-itation mndo for the north, and dls- 'fc peared llko a flash. Tho pigeons clr- cled laboriously around beforo deciding decid-ing which dlroctjon they should take. Tho swallow reached Its nest in Antworp in C7 minutes, while the pigeons took four hours and seven minutes to cover the dlstanco. In other words, tho messenger of spring flew at tho rnto of nearly 132 miles an hour, while tho speed of the plgeonB only slightly exceeded 35 miles an hour.. |