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IV. Obfervations relating to the Migration of Birds. By Edmund Lam- 

 bert, Efq. of Boyton near Heyte/bury, Wilts. In a Letter to William* 

 Markwick, Efq. F. L. S. 



Read April I, 1794.. 

 SIR, 



1WTY fon A. B. Lambert put lately into my hands the Tranf- 

 actions of the Linnean Society I could not help admiring 

 your Remarks on the Migration of Birds ; and as I am an old fportf- 

 man, and have fpent much of my time in the fields and woods, I 

 have not been wholly inattentive to the migration of the feathered 

 race, and therefore take the liberty of making a few remarks on. 

 fome of the birds, which you mention as having efcaped your ob- 

 fervation. 



'The Swallow.. 

 I have feen fwallows the lafl week in March at Stowey, near the 

 Briftol channel, Somerfetfhire ; and the laft I faw was the 22d of 

 November 1782. I obferved two or three flying every day under 

 the cliffs at Exmouth for a week : 1 left the place the 23d, other- 

 wife I might have feen them later. 



Goaifucker. 



This bird flies late at night, and therefore is feldom feen. It lives 

 chiefly on moths, Mr. Seymer,.of Harford, Dorfet (a great natu- 



6 ralift),. 



