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Show MARVELOUS GIFT OF BIRD5. Homing Pigeons Able to Make Their Roosts in Pitchy Darkness. Although birds aro not placed near tho summit lino of evolution, their ability to fly gives thorn advantage over nearly all tbo mammalia. Their mysterious power of changing i tholr polarity or weight In order to dlvo In wntor or fly has been often discussed and the almost incrodlble ' velocity of their motion when mlgrat-1 Ing, sometimes amounting to four miles a minute for vast distances, has no pnralh 1 among vpthor animals. A series of cnrerul trials with carriers pigeons reported from Franco show apparently without doubt their possession pos-session of a highly developed senso of direction. ' It was 'supposed that homing pigeons depended upon sight to Hnd j tholr way, but those experiments havo been conducted botween Ceremes and lloaun In I ho darkness of night. In twenty minutes tho first bird, dispatcher! dis-patcher! at 10 p. m., reached its roost, a distance of msventeon miles being traversed. Half of tbo number arrived ar-rived heforo midnight and tbo remainder re-mainder followed In a few hours. |
