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THE OOLOGIST. 
A SAMPLE. 
Whenever 
anyone states 
their poultry 
is better than 
ours, and it 
isn7, we feel 
subtle atmospheric peculiarity, prevails, 
which, in some way, so influences the mus- 
cles of the bird, that its win^s obey an in- 
voluntary will, and carry the bird to the 
south. This compulsion of the bird's mus- 
cles, as it were, is called by the author the 
''spasm"; and this spasm lasts only just 
for a certain length of time— just suilicieat 
inclined to il- in most cases, to carry the bird to its des- 
lustrate a tiny. Now, this is evidently a very studied 
sample of theory, but tlie question arises, why do not 
tlieir poultry, j non-migratory birds obey this spasm"? 
The above is I ' 
I correct sam- ! 
pie of rooster taken from a phot()gra]>li ! 
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— TiiEKE seems to be a grent influx of 
Snowy Owls in this vicinity. Tlnve were 
taken aHvc nortli of here, and at least ms 
many have been sent here to iw nKHuitetl. 
— A (iEtxiKAinncAL exploring partv to 
New (Juinea, reported that u large bird, 
measuring eighteen feet a<*i'oss the wings, 
■was shot at as it flew l>y Mr. Suiithnrst of 
the expedition. The bird is described as 
having a dark brown body, white breast, 
long neck and beak. The party iiirther re- 
ports that the noise made i»y the bird in flv- 
ing was as that made liy a locomotive ; a 
rumbliug, as of a heavy, rusliiug draught of 
air. Wlietlier this is a species of Albatross 
or not, was not ascertained, but the fact 
of its having a long neck and being found 
inland, as we infer, renders tliis improbable. 
— A coKKESPONDENT of the Londou 
Times entertiiius and publishes a new the- 
ory concerning the causes he attributes tp 
the migrations of birds. His theory cer- 
tainly is novel, and in substance is as fol- 
lo^^'s : At a certain period of the year, a 
strong southern current of air, contaiuiug a 
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