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Show Wonder of Nature h Vision Given to Birds The vision of birds is an amazing thing. A vulture soaring almost out of view sees a carcass lying perhaps In a quite inconspicuous position; a kestrel hovering at a height of 100 feet, spies a mouse creeping about in the grass; a punnet cruising round 200 feet above the sea observes a fish swimming some distance below the surface, says W. W. While, in the j Nineteenth Century Magazine. i The gannot's sight is by no means ' the least remarkable among keen-eyed ' birds, for It has to penetrate water as well as air. A gannet's hurtle on fish ; beneath well expresses the action. At ! once it cheeks its flight, poises for a second, half closes its wings, and dives : wilh tremendous speed. There Is a ciu icgs corkscrew iike motion in the downward swoop, and at the moment of entering the water the long, pointed ' wings are folded. |