SWALLOWS. Class II. 



having been difcovered in a torpid (late. Mr. 

 ColUnfon'^ favored us with the evidence of three 

 gentlemen, eye-witnefles to numbers of fand mar- 

 tins being drawn out of a cliff on the Rhine, m 

 the month of March 1762 -f. And the Honorable 

 Daines Barrinp^lon communicated to us the follow- 

 ing fad, on the authority of the late Lord Belhaven^ 

 that numbers of fwallows have been found in old 

 dry walls, and in fandhills near his Lordfhip's feat 

 in Eajl Lothian ; not once only, but from year to 

 year ; and that when they were expofed to the 

 warmth of a fire, they revived. We have alfo 

 heard of the fame annual difcoveries near Morpeth 

 in Northumberland, but cannot fpeak of them with 

 the fame afTurance as the two former : neither in 

 the two lafl inftances are we certain of the par- 

 ticular fpecies :j:. 



Other witnefTes crowd on us to prove the refi- 

 dence of thofe birds in a torpid date during the fe- 

 vere feafon. 



Firil, In the chalky cliffs of Sujfex ; as was feen 

 on the fall of a great fragment fome years ago. 



Secondly, In a decayed hollow tree that was 

 cut down, near Dolgelli, in Merioneth/hire. 



Thirdly, In a c\\^ nt?ix JVhitby, TorkJJnre-, where, 



* By letter, dated June 14, 1764. 



t Phit, Tran/.^YoL LIII. p. loi. art. 24. 



X Khin gives an inilance oi /wifts being found in a torpid 

 ftate. Hiji. «i/. 204. 



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