No. 4.] COUES'S ORNITH. BIBLIOGRAPHY HIRUNDINID^. 523 



1809. Reeve, H, Au | Essay | on | the Torpidity | of | Auimals. | By Henry Reeve, 

 M. D. I Member of the Royal College of Physicians of | London, and Fellow 

 of the Linujean Society. | — | [Quotation.] | — | Loudon: | Printed for Long- 

 man, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, | Paternoster Row, | by Richard Taylor & Co. 

 Shoe Lane. | — | 1809. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. iii-viii, 1-152. 



P. 39. "Here a curious question arises respecting the- disappearance of birds." And the 

 author goes on to discuss the alleged hibernation of Swallows. Cf. Philos. Mag., xxxv, 1810, 

 p. 241. 



1813. FoRSTER, T. Observations | on the | Brvmal Retreat | of the Swallow. | — | To 



which is annexed | a coi^iovs Index | to many passages relating to this bird, | 

 in the works of ancient and modern authors. | — | By | Thomas Forster, F. 

 L. S. I Author of | "Researches about atmospheric Phaeuomena," etc. | — | 

 Third edition, corrected and enlarged. | — | London : | Printed by J. Moyes, 

 Greville Street, Hatton Garden ; | for Thomas Underwood, 32, Fleet Street, | 

 and 40 West Smithfield. | — | i813. 8vo. pp. i-xiv, 1-46. 

 See other editions, of 1814 and 1817. 



1814. Forster, T. Observations | on the | brvmal retreat | of the | Swallow. | — | To 



which is annexed | a cojiiovs index | to many passages relating to this bird, | 

 in the works of ancient and modern authors. | — | By Thomas Forster, 

 F. L. S. I Author of [etc.] | — | Fourth Edition, corrected and enlarged. | 

 [This Edition is not published separately.] | 1814. <^ The PamiMeteer, iv, 

 1814, pp. 431-462. 



This and two others are the only editions I have been able to lay hands on, of this rather 

 notable paper ; as stated in the title, the present edition is not issued separately. I give eds. 

 of 1813 and 1817, and find another quoted of 1817. In the present, the author alludes to three 

 earlier editions. The treatise in its present shape seems to be materially modified, with a new 

 preface ; besides which, it consists of the original (?) preface, pp. 433-438, observations, etc., 

 439-454, appendix, 455-459, giving first and latest appearance of -Swallows near London for 

 several years ; and of index, 460-462, of passages relating to history of the Swallow in various 

 worts, ancient and modem, and the names of Swallows in many different languages. (He 

 derives Swallow, as usual, from A. S. swelgan, to swallow, and says the Greek "is supposed 

 to have come either from x^^^V Sovelv quod sdl. labia agitet, vel quod x^'^eo-tv aSei. labiis canit" 

 — in which he differs from other authority. The latin supposititious derivation, ab hrerendo, 

 from the adhesive nests, seems to me very far-fetched.) Cf. Birds Col. Tail., i, 1878, pp. 

 369-371. 



1816? Anox. The | Swallows: | or, | Observations & Reflections | upon | Their Late 

 Assemblage | at Rotherham, | and their | subsequent departure. | — | [Quo- 

 tation, 4 lines.] | — | Albion Press: | Printed and Sold by T. Crookes, Rother- 

 ham; | sold also by [etc. 3 lines], [n. d. 1816?] 1vol. 16mo. pp. i-viii, 9-38. 

 Anonymous : preface dated Clifton Cottage, Dec. 1815. — A sermon by a clergyman to his 

 parishioners, on the wisdom and goodness of God as illustrated by the habits of Hirundinidoe. 



1817. Forster, T. Observations ] on the | Brvmal Retreat | of the | Swallow; | 

 with I a copiovs reference | to passages relating | to this subject, | in differ- 

 ent authors. | — | By Thomas Forster, F. L. S. | [etc.] | — | Fifth Edition. 

 I — I London : | Printed by J. Moyes, Greville Street ; | for Thomas and 

 George Underwood, | 32, Fleet street. | — | 1817. 8vo. pp. i-xiv, 1-46. 



Substantially the same as, if not identical with, the 4th ed., published in The Pamphleteer, 

 iv, 1814, pp. 431-462, q. v. 



" I do not mean to say that swallows may not have occasionally been found under water ; for 

 it is well known that they have ; . . . but I should certainly attribute their being foimd in 

 such situations to mere accident ; . . . they have sometimes been taken out of the water, 

 in winter, in a torpid state, . . . they have likewise been found concealed in the crevices 

 of rocks, in holes in old decayed trees, in old ruined towers, and under the thatch of houses." 



1823? STElNMtJLLER, J. R. [Sur FHirundo rujiestris.] <^Neue Alpina, i, p. 530. 



Not seen. 



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1824. Audubon, J. J. [Note on the Hirundo fulva.] < Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., i, 



pt. 1, 1824, pp. 163-166. 



Forms part of the article by DeWitt Clinton, loc. cit, q. v. 



