Oct. 20, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
605 
A singular method of determining the height 
at which birds fly when they are migrating is 
recorded in the “Morning Post.” Two ob¬ 
servers watched the moon’s disc at night 
through small telescopes placed some distance 
apart, and from the different paths of the birds 
which were seen, projected against the moon, 
from the two stations, it was possible to compute 
the height and direction of flight of each bird. 
This method has been employed and further de¬ 
veloped this year by Mr. Joel Stebbins and Mr. 
E'. A. Rath, of the University of Illinois, and has 
been used to estimate not only the height at 
which the birds fly, but to find with much greater 
accuracy than has been possible heretofore the 
speed of their flight. The average height at 
which migrating birds fly is not more than 1,500 
feet from the ground, but the speeds at which 
they travel appear to be greater than has of late 
years been believed to be the case. The mini¬ 
mum speeds of the birds observed varied from 
eighty miles to 130 miles an hour. It should be 
said, however, that the birds were flying with 
the -wind.-—Shooting Times. 
Cats were the subject of discussion one even¬ 
ing, and the boys came out strong with a string 
of capital tales. Finally one of the veterans re¬ 
lated a little anecdote, wherein his favorite cat— 
who was hopelessly behind a squirrel she was 
chasing across the yard—had been intercepted by 
him and seized by the tail, and slung with such 
momentum that when she struck she at once 
overhauled and seized her prey. This brought 
Cud to his feet. 
“That reminds me,” said he, “of the scrape 
that brother Bill and I had with our cat on the 
Fourth of July. The boys had been firing a 
cannon just back of our house, and had left it 
there. Bill and I thought we would have a little 
celebration on our own hook. So we got about 
a quart of powder and loaded up the old gun. 
Just as we got the wad down, old Tabby came 
purring round, when Bill—who was always a bit 
queer—grabbed her, and chucking her into the 
muzzle, rammed her home. We then rigged up 
a slow match, and touching fire to it, scampered 
for the hillside toward which the gun was 
pointed. We hadn’t much more than got there 
when we saw the old twenty-four hist more than 
ten feet, and, as the smoke cleared a little, we 
saw old Tab a-coming, first sideways and then 
endways, with a ‘Yeow, yeow’ at every turn. 
Pretty soon she struck on top of the knoll, and 
Je-ru-sa-lem,'how she did run!” Shadow. 
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