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they continue there all the year, or are only 

 birds of palTage, as they are with us, I cannot 

 tell ; but it would be worth the obfervation of 

 any curious F.nglifhman reflding in that coun- 

 try ; therefore I fhall fet down their names, 

 viz. 



The Greater Redftart, 



The Witwal, 



The Wheat-Ear, 



The Small-Green-Wren, 



The Houfe- Swallow, 



The Bee Eater, 



The Wry-neck, 



Merula Saxatilis, Aldrov. 

 Idlerus, Plinii, 

 Oenanthe or Vitiflora, 

 Regulus non criftatus, 

 Hirundo domeftica, 

 Merops, 



lynx or Torquilla. 



Of this number the Wheat-Ear, the Green- 

 Wren, the Houfe-S wallow and Wry- neck, are 

 found in England in fummer, and all of them 

 in the fouthern parts of Europe, where I be- 

 lieve they are birds of paflage alfo. All thefe I 

 have met with in parcels of birds fent from Ben- 

 gal j and if any perfon of good obfervation in 

 India could difcover that thefe birds are abfent 

 there while prefent with us, and prefent there 

 whilft abfent here, it would anfwer the queftion, 

 whither and in what manner do thefe birds 

 pafs ? 



