| Show PIGEON 3 I 1 1 bleir of flight three th ouid I 1 miles in four days V I 1 I 1 1113 audubon tells ailt Oils power of flight enables them when in need 40 survey and paes over an astonishing estena of connary in a very short timed Ili geons for example bars been killed he neighborhood of new york ac 1 th their corpse filled esith rice col lecter by them in tile fields of georgia and carolina tile near eat point at which this sup ply could bare been 0 brained and as it is vell known that ow ing 10 their power th ey ill decompose food entirely in twelve hours I 1 they must have traveled between 00 and miles in six bourd making their speed at an everado about one mile a minute susan fenimore cooper in writ ing upon t his pleasantly says it is ased the biri 1 ts were oil I 1 y a few barp oil rs on the journey break fasting on the santee and dining on the hudson at this rate it has been calculated that our pas pigeon in ight go to eurillo in less than three lays i nde e d A straggler Is said to have been actually khot in scotland so that whatever disputes way arizo AS to the rival merits of columbus abild it is very probable that american pigeons had dincov gred europe long before the europeans bad discovered them as birds of this country thair great 0 w er of flight it a said is d bv his great a power ahi ch enables them while they travel at such a swift rate to view oba acts below to discover their food with facility and thus put an immediate end to their journey this has been proved to be the owe by having observed the pigeon when p aming i over a destitute part of the country ta keep high I 1 n the eft and in such an extensive front lis to enable them to hundreds of acres at once but if iun the contrad Y the la rid was richly covered with food or the trees with mist they lowin order to discover the port on most plentifully sup plied and upon these they progressively |
