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parture of swallows, but says nothing further 

 concerning their brumal residence, than that they 

 do not winter in Greece*. 



Isidorus mentions their passage across the 

 sea, and supposes that they winter in some dis- 



tant country f- 



Pliny, as I have before observed, asserts that 

 they withdraw themselves in autumn to the sunny 

 recesses of mountains, where they are found in 

 winter without feathers. Neither does he appear 

 altogether singular in this opinion ; Claudian 

 alludes to swallows being found dead In the 



* A-sratps g,&C. xtti v xtifAci&ffi, xa ai ^AJow5, xat ai r 

 Hist. lib. viii, cap. 12. 



Aristotle in another place, as Gesner observes, mentions 

 the swift, awov?, as being seen at all times of the year ; and 

 notices the resemblance of this bird to the swallow, %i.tefoi', 

 which, with many other passages that the reader may find 

 and consult by referring to the index at the end, leave no 

 room to doubt that the awou? was our swift, Jiirundo apus. I 

 do not know however, that in any part of Greece this bird 

 remains all the year. The account, however, seems to cor- 

 respond with that of Prosper Alpinus above cited. 



f Maria transuolat (hirundo) ibique hyeme commoratur. 

 Isidorus. 



