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persons who were digging for a fox. M. Pen- 

 nant notices an account of a M. Conway, of 

 Sychton, in North Wales, who found a vast 

 number of torpid swallows, just before Christmas, 

 clinging to the shaft near the top of a lead 

 mine : on flinging some gravel on them they 

 moved, but did not fly away. The above- 

 mentioned facts seem to shew the power of 

 the swallow to remain torpid in concealed situa- 

 tions in cold weather, and to be reanimated by 

 the returning warmth. The following tend further 

 to confirm the opinion that these birds may also 

 remain torpid immersed under water, and can 

 return to life on the return of warm weather. 



It is asserted, on the authority of M. Klein, 

 the naturalist, that the mother of the Countess 

 of Lehndorf saw a bundle of swallows brought 

 from out of the Lake Fische Haff, near Pillaw, 

 which, when brought to a fire, flew about. 



Count < Schileben is said to have given an 

 instrument, on stamped paper, purporting that he 

 had seen swallows fly about a room, which he 

 had taken out of the lake at Gerdauen in winter, 

 and had brought before a fire. M. Klein examined 



