﻿562- SWALLOW. 



fpeckled with red : has two broods in a year j the firfr. in June 

 the other in Augufi. The male has a little warbling weak note, 

 but not unpleafing. 



This fpecies is fuppofed, with fome propriety, to take up its 

 winter-quarters in Senegal*, and parts adjacent, and feems to 

 polTefs in turn the whole of the old continent, being known from 

 Norway to the Cape of Good Hope, on the one hand, and from 

 Kamtfchatka to India and Japan on the other. They are alfo 

 found in all parts of North America, migrating north and fouth, 

 as with us. In Sweden and in North America they are called Barn 

 Swallows f. Kalm fays, that in America they build in houfes, 

 and under the outfides of the roofs •, alfo on the mountains, in 

 fuch parts of them as project beyond the bottom, as well as 

 under the corners of perpendicular rocks. The aculeated ones 

 building in chimneys, as ours in England. 



Much may be faid concerning their migrations, whether any 

 of them pafs the winter under the water, &c. but this would 

 take up too much both of our time and paper j and what is 

 worfe, leave us ftill in the dark in refpect to the fubject. Who- 



* Talking of Swallows, Mr. Adanfon fays, " they are never feen but at this 

 " time of the year (after Oclober) at Senegal, along with the Shtails, Wagtails, 

 " Kites, and fome other birds of paffage, which go thither every year, when the 

 "■ cold drives them away from the temperate countries of Europe. Another faft, 

 *' not lefs worthy of remark, is, that the Swallows do not build their nefts in 

 " Senegal as in Europe ; they lie every night two and two, or fingle, on the fea- 

 ** ftiore, which they feem to like better than inland places." Voy. to Senegal, 

 p. 121. And again, p. 163, mentions, that the Swallows took up their resi- 

 dence at night in his hut, which was pretty dark within, perched on the rafters j 

 however it is doubted by fome, whether they be our Swallows. 



f Ladu-fwala, Faun. Suec. p» 98. See alfo, Kalm Voy. ii. p. 270. 



ever 



