Jan. 20, 1906.] 

the sportsman? A popular notion attributes to 
the larger game birds a sense of smell so delicate 
as to warn them of the approach of man or any 
enemy at a distance, provided they have the wind 
in their favor. I am inclined to think that this 
opinion is not well founded, but certainly no 
birds are possessed of better eyes and ears than 
the geese and cranes. The superior height of 
the latter gives them a wide range of vision, 
and they are, perhaps, the most unapproachable 
of all our birds. Every one who has paid any 
attention to the subject must have noticed that 
the shyness of birds is somewhat in, proportion 
to their size. This is largely, no doubt, the re- 
sult of experience or of inherited “instinct,” 
those birds that have been long persecuted by 
man having learned to fear his presence, but 
partly I think, more especially in the case of 
the very smallest species, to defective vision. I 
have known small birds to be killed by flying 
against buildings, which of course they must 
have seen, but not until it was too late to alter 
their course. And I have seen a kinglet taken 
with the hand, to the great surprise and fright 
of the bird itself. I would by no means be 
understood as saying that any bird cannot dis- 
tinguish a house or a man as such, at a con- 
siderable or even a great distance; the fact that 
they sometimes fail to do so is doubtless owing 
to a too close attention to business (insect 
catching) and to a lack of observation. The 
eye of the small bird is as well adapted to the 
work it has to perform as is that of the larger 
one; but it may be called “near-sighted’”—it is 
not a telescope, but a microscope, and as such 
it is all that its possessor could desire. Observe 
a small fly-catcher seated on a dead limb in the 
shady woods, or a warbler or kinglet darting 
about among the branches of an oak or elm; 
then see him dart here and there, pursuing in 
zig-zag course, and with marvellous rapidity, in- 
sects so small that we can scarcely detect their 
presence, and we cannot but observe that its 
eye is wonderfully acute. Contrast this tiny 
bead with the long-ranged optics of the crow! 
Truly, Dame Nature has adapted everything to 
the place which it is destined to occupy. 
He oe WwW: 

The Dog’s Tongue. 
At last a German professor has tackled the 
important question why a dog lets his tongue 
hang out of his mouth when he is hot. To be 
sure, many years ago Linnzus seems to have 
pondered this problem, but he disposed of the 
matter altogether too flippantly by saying; vix 
sudat, calidus linguam exserit, thus simply in- 
dorsing the vulgar belief that dogs perspire al- 
together with their tongue. Professor Dahl has 
no use for such a shallow splanation. He points 
out, in the Naturwissenschaftliche Wochen- 
schrift (a name to make any dog howl), that it 
is not true that dogs do not perspire with their 
skins; they actually do so, although the per- 
spiration does not form in drops, as in the case 
of a horse. The professor admits that the 
escape of moisture on a dog’s tongue does help 
to cool him, but maintains that there is a 
deeper reason for the protruding tongue in the 
panting animal. Whena dog is at rest he breathes 
through his nose; but after violent exercise he 
needs more air than can pass through his 
nostrils, and must therefore breathe through the 
mouth. This, however, is, on account of the 
formation of the tongue, possible only if he lets 
it hang out of the mouth. But why did not 
wise Nature widen the dog’s nostrils, after the 
fashion of the horse’s? For this question, too, 
our professor has an answer. The dog’s princi- 
pal sense is the sense of smell, which, to be at 
its best, requires nostrils precisely like those 
given to the dog.—New York Evening Post. 

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