ORNITHOLOGY. So 



Catesby and Edwards made the etchings of 

 their figured subjects— Wilson performed tho 

 drawings and the colourings of his — in all respects 

 he is superior. 



I am happy to agree with this great naturalist 

 about the brumal retreat of the swallow. Ho 

 scouts the idea of their retiring into the bottom of 

 rivers and lakes so generally credited by the dis- 

 ciples of Linnaeus. In addition to the swallows I 

 mentioned to you before, he has described a green, 

 blue, or white-bellied swallow, under the name of 

 hirundo viridis. lie calls the barn swallow hi- 

 rundo Americana, and seems to think that tha 

 American bank swallow, or sand martin, (hirundo 

 riparia) is the same as the European. Myriads 

 of swallows, says a late traveller, are the occa- 

 sional inhabitants of Honduras. This is a key to 

 the whole mystery of their winter quarters. 



The second volume of the Harleian Miscellany 

 Contains an essay written seriatim, to prove that 

 the moon is the hvbcrnaculum of birds of pas- 

 sage. 



The following text from Jeremiah is the groan I 

 work of this strange hypothesis. " The stork in 

 the heaven knoweth her appointed time<, and the 

 turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the 

 time of their coming." He says that "divers of 

 these fowls which make such changes, and observe 



