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I believe, hold good in all fmall birds ; for t 

 take it to be manifeft beyond difpute, that the 

 Swallow-kind leave this ifland in the autumn* 



Having, in page 8 1, mentioned A new general 

 Hiftory of Birds, wherein are colleded feveral 

 opinions on the paflage of birds, I Ihcili ht re, 

 and in the following chapter, give an abftradt of 

 them, as that book is but little known. 



The migration of birds is no lefs wonderful 

 than any other particular which has been men- 

 tioned. This is common to various kinds of 

 them, as the Swallow, Quail, Stork, Crane, 

 Fieldfare, Woodcock, Martin, Nightingale, &c. 

 Mr. Derham has produced what is obferved by 

 the prophet, as a remarkable inftance of in- 

 ftind, " That the Stork in the heavens knoweth 

 her appointed times, and the Turtle, and the 

 Crane, and the Swallow, obferve the time of 

 their coming." 



" This, fays Mr. Chambers, is a curious article 

 in natural hiftory, and furniflies" a notable in- 

 ftance 



