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attained the average speed as appended. It will be remarked that all the days named are 
Sundays ; it is the custom on the Continent to fly all the matches on that day if possible : — 
Date. 
Yards per Minute. 
Miles per Hour. 
Dale. 
Yards per Minute. 
Miles per Hour. 
7th June, 1874 
860 
29J 
30th May, 1875 
699 
23I 
'4th „ 
831 
28J 
6th June, ,, 
i>53' 
52* 
14th „ 
',383 
47i 
'3 th ,, „ 
1. 53' 
52I 
2 1st ,, ,, 
853 
29 
20th ,, ,, 
1,476 
5°I 
28th „ 
1,208 
4'I 
27th ,, 
1,208 
4 't 
“ Thus we see that the average speed of the four fastest races chosen by M. Chapuis, ranging 
from 1854 — 1860, is 1,521 A , and the average speed of the first four weeks in June, 1875, taking the 
long races with the short, and the slow with the fast, is 1,4362 yards per minute. 
“The number of birds actually thrown in each race is very large ; and when one considers that 
many Societies are racing from the same point at tne same time, the trouble experienced in getting 
them all thrown fairly and properly at a railway station may well be imagined. Thus, on Saturday, 
26th June, 1875, there arrived at Chatellerault railway station the following panniers for the libera- 
tion of the birds, numbering 
in all about 2,000, 
at the hours given : — 
Society. 
Town. 
Panniers. 
To be Liberated. 
Snelle Duif 
Turnhout 
. . I 
. 4.0 a.m. 
V reyheid 
Berchem 
3 
4-15 » 
St. Sebastien 
Antwerp 
22 
4-35 .. 
l’Esperance 
Malins . 
9 
5-° .. 
Snelle Vlucht 
Fecheren 
5 
5o >. 
Federation 
Vieux Dieu 
5 
5 ° .. 
,, 
Lierre . 
4 
5 ° >. 
» 
Binche . 
13 
4 - 5 ° ». 
“ The following statistics will give some idea of the birds thus said to be flown in the various 
races, and the distances attained by so large a number of birds, which have successfully gone 
through the training ordeal : — 
Date. 
To 
From 
Miles. 
Birds Started. 
14th June, 1874 
Lille 
Chartres 
164 
1,266 
” >> » , 
Roubaix 
,, 
166 
30° 
Namur 
Ferte St. Aubin 
226 
602 
,, 5 y f y 
Elberfeld 
Breme 
145 
6S9 
28th ,, ,, 
Antwerp 
Chateauroux 
320 
544 
29th ,, ,, 
Liege 
( harmant 
433 
3a 0 
5th July, „ 
Lokeren 
Tours 
298 
776 
,, „ ,, 
Dainpremy 
Chateauroux 
273 
1,106 
12th ,, ,, 
Namur 
Pei igueux 
400 
670 
25th „ 
Brussels 
Montpellier 
00 
— j 
667 
,, ,, ,, 
Ghent 
Morceux 
545 
00 
V/-> 
18th ,, ,, 
Liege 
Toulouse 
505 
?6o 
6th June, 1S75 
St. Nicholas 
( Jrleans 
243 
*.445 
I3th „ 
Dampremy 
Bourges 
242 
G/~* 
00 
00 
20th ,, ,, 
Waesmunster 
Blois 
267 
1.579 
nth July, ,, 
Charleroi 
Blois 
234 
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“ The long distances attained, and the number of birds sent those distances, should be noted 
in the above list, proving, as it does, that the good birds in Belgium are legion. 
