SWALLOWS. 



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and some few still, maintain that they do not desert us 

 entirely, but become dormant during the cold weather, or, 

 what is still more extraordinary, plunge into water, and remain 

 buried in the mud at the bottom, till the warmth of spring- 

 revives them, when they awaken from their slumbers, and 

 a^ain become tenants of the air. 



Sand-Martins and Hawk. 



"We will not positively assert that Swallows can, under any 

 circumstances, continue through the winter in a dormant 

 state, and still less, that they can exist at the bottom of water ; 

 but as instances well attested, without assignable reasons for 

 deceiving, are abundant, coming too from different and distant 

 quarters, they at all events merit some notice ; and that future 

 observers may, by being made acquainted with a few of the 



