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Show How Birds Know the Way One of the many explanations that have been offered to account fo the fact that migrating birds are able t find their way by night and In cloudy and foggy weather Is that they are sensitive, sen-sitive, In some way, to currents of I terrestrial magnetism and, therefore, direct their (light by the magnetic meridians, me-ridians, says the Popular Science Monthly. This suggestion was put fortli by M. A. Thouzier, a French pigeon fancier, who declares that carrier car-rier pigeons make poor flights during the occurrence of magnetic storms. He also asserts that the general use of wireless telegraphy has diminished the reliability of these birds to a surprising surpris-ing extent. |