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IV. Obfervations relating to the Migration of B'trds^ By Edmuthi Lam- 

 bert, Ffq. of Boyton near Heytejbury, JVilts. In a Letter to William 

 Alarkwicky Efq. F. L. S. 



Read April I, ijg^, 

 SIR, 



"VTY fon A. B. Lambert put lately into my hands the Tranf- 

 "*■ adtions 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,.! 

 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 lafl: 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. 



Goatfucker.. 



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

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



6 ralift),. 



