VIEWS ON MIGRATION. 15 



into Africa does not prove that some other Swallows 

 cannot hibernate. Unfortunately no direct evi- 

 dence of torpidity has ever come under this 

 naturalist's observation. 



The following extract is from the Dundee 

 Advertiser of April 1884. "About four o'clock in 

 the afternoon of the 13th or i4tli of March, the 

 light-keeper on duty at the Bell Rock Lighthouse 

 observed a Swallow fluttering in front of the kitchen 

 window. After watching it for some little time, he 

 opened the window and stood aside to see if the 

 bird would come in. This in a minute or two it 

 did, and alighted on the inside of the window-sill. 

 So exhausted did the little wanderer appear from its 

 long flight [?] and the buffeting of the weather, that 

 it allowed itself to be lifted up and put into a cage. 

 It immediately lay down on the bottom of the cage 

 and instantly fell fast asleep, remaining in this state 

 till next morning about eight o'clock (sixteen hours). 

 So sound were its slumbers that the keepers watch- 

 ing it as it lay could scarcely detect any signs of 

 life in it, and at times they were almost certain that 

 it had died. On awakening at the hour mentioned, 

 the Swallow was taken out by one of the keepers 

 and given a drink of water. It was put back into 

 the cage again, where it lay in an apparently 

 dormant condition till 10 a.m., when it was supplied 

 with more water, under the influence of which, and 

 the rays of the sun, it became quite lively and 

 strong. The kitchen window was now lifted up, 

 and the bird taken out and laid in the open hand of 



