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Arguments in favour of its migration. 



could scarcely stand, from being both very wet 

 and very weak : with their wings hanging on the 

 ground,, and that he had often observed the swal- 

 lows to be very weak for some days after their ap- 

 pearance. 



Dr. Owen, speaking of woodcocks and field- 

 fares visiting us in the winter, and then return- 

 ing northward, says, " But as to cuckoos and 

 swallows, it is generally allowed that they sleep 

 in winter ; having, as it is said, been found in 

 hollow trees and caverns ; nor is this at all un- 

 likely, though, on the other hand, I can see no 

 absurdity in supposing that these should go upon 

 a summer, as the others do upon a winter pilgri- 

 mage ; that these pursue a lesser heat, as well as 

 the others fly from a greater cold." , 



Willoughby, however, is of a firm opinion, 

 that the swallows emigrate from these climates in 

 the winter, and that they take their route into 

 Egypt and Ethiopia, in which he is confirmed by 

 most modern travellers ; we have it, indeed, cor- 

 roborated in a very particular manner by a very 

 respectable author, in speaking of the towns of 

 Southwould, Ipswich, and others in the eastern 

 parts of Great Britain, in the following words : 

 " In these towns, Southwould and Ipswich, in 

 particular, and so at all the towns on this coast, 

 from OrforcT Ness to Yarmouth, is the ordinary 

 place where our summer friends, the swallows, 

 first land when they come to visit us; and here 



