Crass Il. Sow Ae bt Ee Ov We. Ss: 
on digging out a fox, whole bubhels of fwallows 
were found in a torpid condition. And, 
Laftly, The Reverend Mr. Conway, of Sychton, 
Flinifbire, was fo obliging as to communicate the 
following faét: A few years ago, on looking down 
an old lead mine in that county, he obferved num- 
bers of fwallows clinging to the timbers cf the 
fhaft, feemingly afleep; and on flinging fome 
sravel on them, they juft moved, but never at- 
tempted to fly or change their place; this was be- 
tween Al] Saints and Chriftmas. 
Thefe are doubtlefs the lurking places of the 
Jatter hatches, or of thofe young birds, who are 
incapable of diftant migrations. There they con- 
tinue infenfible and rigid; but like Ales may fome- 
times be reanimated by an unfeafonable hot day 
in the midft of winter: for very near Chriftmas a 
few appeared on the moulding of a window of 
Merton College, Oxford, ina remarkably warm nook, 
which prematurely fet their blood in motion, hav- 
ing the fame effect as laying them before the fire 
at the fame time of year. Others have been known 
to make this premature appearance; but as foon 
as the cold natural to the feafon returns, they - 
withdraw again to their former retreats. 
I fhall conclude with one argument drawn from 
the very late hatches of two fpecies. 
On the twenty-third of Ofober 1767, a mar- 
tin was ieen in Southwark, flying in and out of its 
neft: and on the twenty-ninth of the fame month, 
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