LEARNED BIRDS.
A young lady from Toulouse, Miss Vandermeersch, visited London the year before last with a " troupe " of birds of more than birdlike sagacity and penetration. She has now returned, and set up her cage at St. James's Theatre, where she purposes giving morning exhibitions. The performances are of the same sort as on the former occasion : the tertium quid in addition to the lady and the birds consisting of a pack of uniform- looking cards, placed edgeways; whence the bird, summoned forth by his mistress, extracts one containing any information which the audience may call for—as the name of the month, the number of days in the year, Sre. There are variations in detail, but the principle continues the same through- out the exhibition. At the opening performances, which took place before a select company yesterday, only one mistake occurred, though there were two or three false starts : and the exhibition is sufficiently curious and good of its kind to be worth a visit from the sight-seeing public.
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