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Show MAnvcLous oift or birds I Homing Plgeene Able to Make Their I Roosts In Pitchy Osrkness. Although birds are not placed near the summit Hue ot evolution, their sblltty to fly gives them advantage o.ir nearly nil the mammalia Their mairrloua power of rhanglne. their polarity or weight In order to dive In water or fly haa been often dlseiiaeed and the almost IncredlliN velocity of their motion wbea mlarsi lag, sometimes amounting lo four mile a minute for vast dlatanre has no paralkl among other animate A J erics of careful trials with carrier pigeon reported from 1 "ranee shown . apparently without doubt their pn serelon of a highly developed sense1 of direction. i It was supposed that homing pigeon depended upon sight to find i heir way. but these experiments hae lieen conducted between Ceretnc and Itomin In the darkness of night In I twmty minutes the first bird, die- paiihrd at 10 p m., reached Its roost i a distance of seventeen miles beiog traversed Half of lbs number ar rlied before midnight and the re malnder followed In a few hours |