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the tree, we are apprehensive, from what botanical references 

 we have been able to make, that the peduncles of the pendu- 

 lous clusters of fruit are represented of a length exceeding 

 their natural one. — J, D. 



AFRICA. 



Swallows in Africa, — "I cannot quit the subject of 

 ornithology without stating, that Adanson in 1783, and 

 M. Afzelius in 1793, informed me that they saw ii/irundo 

 riistica, the former near the colony on the river Senegal, and 

 the latter at Sierra Leone, in that time of the year when it is 

 absent from Europe : Adanson desiring me to let Barrington 

 know that I'hirondelle was the French name for HiYxmdo 

 rustica. Mr. Tudsbury of Chesterfield, who resided at Sierra 

 Leone and Rio Nunez from 1821 to 1828, as agent to a 



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