THE SENSE OF DIRECTION IN ANIMALS.
[TO THZ EDITOR OF THE • SFZCIATOIL.]
• 80,—I read with interest Mr. J. M. Ritchie's letter on the above subject in the Spectator of October 8th, kindly lent me by a friend. The following may be of interest to your leaders. I was on a sheep station on the Lachlan River, New South Wales, from 1867-69. One of our neighbours who bred horses sent some to Sydney for sale, a distance of three hundred miles more or less. On arrival, one was sold to a Melbourne gentleman, who sent him to Melbourne by sea, a voyage in those days of five or sir days. On arrival at Melbourne he was placed in a paddock just outside the 'city. Three days afterwards he was missed, a fortnight after be appeared on his old station, five hundred miles from Mel- 'bourne as the crow flies.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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