BIRDS’ EYES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16115, 2 May 1923, Page 10

BIRDS’ EYES.

SECRETS OF VISION: A DOCTOR’S QUEST.

SYDNEY, April 10.—Dr. “Casey” Wood has coma all tho way from America to Sydney to try to road 1 the secrets in the eyes of Australian birdto. Birds, he says, have the greatest variety off vision, and the most acute, ol all animals), and a study of their eyes is an.introduction to all forms of sight. Dr. Wood, a colonel in the United States army, and a member of the Ornithologists’ Union in America and 1 England, became known to almost every newspaper reader in England as “the man who came from America to hear the nightingale sing.” The story is that he was cornered' by a member of the Northcliffe battalion of interviewers when he landed, but made his escape by saying that he had come over merely to hear the.nightingale sing. It wasn’t a long intei’view, but next d!ay the public read half a. column about) the unusual mission ; articles followed on the American and the nightingale, and “Punch” had a verse about England’s imperishable heritage, the nightingale. After spending a month in Australia, and another month in New Zealand, Dr. Wood will return to America t.o complete his study on the eyesight of birds —a subject in which he is one of the pioneers. As there are ten thousand varieties of bird's in the world 1 * he does not hope to make it inclusive, but* merely to mark tho way to what he regards as a fascinating research.