LETTER LI. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, Sept. yd, 1781. 

 HAVE now read your Miscellanies through 

 with much care and satisfaction ; and am to 

 return you my best thanks for the honourable 

 mention made in them of me as a naturalist, 

 which I wish I may deserve. 



In some former letters I expressed my 

 suspicions that many of the house-martins 

 do not depart in the winter far from this village. I therefore 

 determined to make some search about the south-east end 

 of the hill, where I imagined they might slumber out the 

 uncomfortable months of winter. But supposing that the 

 examination would be made to the best advantage in the 

 spring, and observing that no martins had appeared by the 

 nth of April last; on that day I employed some men to 



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