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to mew that he hath himfelf confounded this fpecies 

 with the martin. 



" Prenons un feul oifeau, par exerople, 1'hiron- 

 ci delle, celle que tout ie monde connoit, qui paroit 

 " au printems, difparoit en automne, 6c fait fon nid. 

 ** av r ec de la terre contre les fenetreSj ou dans H$ 

 t( cheminees," p. 23. 



It is very clear that the defign in this period is to 

 fpecify a particular bird in fuch a manner that no 

 doubt could remain with any one about the fpecies 

 referred to; and from other paflages which follow, 

 it is as clear that Monf. de Buffon means to allude to 

 the fwallow nut e jo%?jv. 



Though this was certainly the intention of this 

 moil: ingenious naturalist, it is to me very evident 

 that the martin, and not the fwailow, was in his con- 

 templation, becaufe he firft: fpeaks of the bird's build- 

 ing againft windows, before he mentions chimneys* 

 and therefore fuppofes that either place is indifferent ; 

 which is not the cafe, becaufe the fwallow fel dom 

 builds on the fides of windows, or the martin in 

 chimneys. 



There are perhaps three or four martins to 

 fwallow in all parts ; and from their being the m 

 common bird of the two, as well as from the 

 cumfiance of their building at the corner of windows 

 (and confequently being eternally in • ar light), nine- 



of the Royal Society, by the dire&ors of the Hiidfon's Bay 

 company. 



Thzis long feathers would be very inconvenient to the hen 

 during incubation 5 and they are likewife confined to the cock 

 widow-bird, as, from their more extraordinary length, they would 

 lie ftill more fo. 



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