THE GATHERER.
PIGEONS AFTER A JOURNEY. The carrier pigeon, when travelling, never feeds. If the distance be long, ifc flies on without stopping to take nutriment, and at last arrives thin, exhausted, and almost dying. If corn be presented to ifc, it refuses to eat, contenting itself with drinking a little water and then sleeping. Two or three hours' later it begins to eat with great moderation, and sleeps again immediately afterwards. If its flight has been very prolonged, the pigeon will proceed in this manner for 48 hours before recovering its normal make of feeding.
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 828, 13 December 1900, Page 3
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