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To the foregoing accounts, we fhall give an 

 abftrad from Mr. Penant's valuable work in^ 

 titled Britiili Zoology, under the article Swal- 

 low. 



" There are three opinions among naturalifts 

 concerning the manner the Swallow tribes difpofe 

 of themielves after their difappearance from the 

 countries in which they make their fummer reli- 

 dence. Herodotus mentions one fpecies that re- 

 fides in Egypt the whole year : Profper Alpinus 

 aflerts the fame ; and Mr. Loten, late governor 

 of Ceylon, afiured us, that thofe of Java never 

 remove. Thefe excepted, every other known 

 kind obferve a periodical migration, or retreat. 

 The S allows of the cold Norway, and of 

 North America, of the diftant Kamtfchatka, of 

 the temperate parts of Europe, of Aleppo, and 

 of the hot Jamaica, all agree in this one point. 



In cold countries, a defe6t of infed food, on 

 the approach of winter, is a fufficient reafon for 

 thefe birds to quit them : but fince the fame 

 caiife probably does not fubfift in the warm cli- 

 mates. 



