. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Carrier Pigeons Photogra])lied after a journey of ^000 miles the carriers^ the Bagadas, and the dragons. Allthese birds have warty excrescences on theirbeaks and thick red rims around their e)es. The carrier pigeons have a noblebearing; their legsand without feathersthe feathers of the boare smooth and in-significant. Thisspecies has everyappearance of awild bird. Itsflight is su|)erb,and surpasses thatof other breeds ;but the thick circliaround its eyes preit from seeing well, aitherefore kept morethan for use, and is \ery co
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Carrier Pigeons Photogra])lied after a journey of ^000 miles the carriers^ the Bagadas, and the dragons. Allthese birds have warty excrescences on theirbeaks and thick red rims around their e)es. The carrier pigeons have a noblebearing; their legsand without feathersthe feathers of the boare smooth and in-significant. Thisspecies has everyappearance of awild bird. Itsflight is su|)erb,and surpasses thatof other breeds ;but the thick circliaround its eyes preit from seeing well, aitherefore kept morethan for use, and is \ery are many varieties of thesecarrier pigeons, namely those of Antwerj) andLiege, some turbits, certain tumblers, them, and the greater safety of their missives(carried through air and not on land) give thema very special value of their own. People callthis facultv instinct, but in our dayL word does not leadL- n o u g h. Manysearches produceheories about this\i r o b 1 e m w h i c hman\- e.\]X-rimentsdestroy. Somesay these travel-ers are guided bythe position of thesun, but pigeons letose at night find•ir homes as rapitlKnerringly as by that electric cur-rents have to do with it, but Hachet-Souplet ])roves that this is , li()wc\er, we consider the keen sight of thepigeon, we may accept, provisionally perhaps,
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