BIRDS AND THE CHOLERA.
A crumb of comfort for any who still dread the coming of cholera. It is observed that birds have not left any part of England, and are there still in numbers equal to those of other years ; indeed, if anything, in exces=; This is philosophised upon, and w r e are informed that instinct causes birds to leave en masse any place where the air is impure through epidemic. In proof of this it is cited that when in the summer of 1884 cholera visited Marseilles and Toulon, all the birds, as if by a common impulse, left fGr Hyeres, which singularly escaped the epidemic altogether. This is no solitary incident, tor when the cholera was, in 1872, causing terrible ravages in Galicia, all the spat rows suddenly quitted the town of Przonsyl, and did not return again until the disease had disappeared. Similar extraordinary migrations have been observed on the occasion of epidemics at Munich, Nuremberg, St. Petersburg, Riga, and other places.
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 176, 16 December 1892, Page 6
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