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To the foregoing accounts, we fhall give an 

 abftrad from Mr. Penant's valuable work in- 

 titled Britifh Zoology, under the article Swal- 

 low. 



" There are three opinions among natUralifts 

 concerning the manner the Swallow tribes difpofç 

 of themfelves 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 

 alTerts the fame -, and Mr. Loten, late governor 

 of Ceylon, affured us, that thofe of Java never 

 remove. Thefe excepted, every other knowa 

 kind obferve a periodical migration, or retreat. 

 The S V/ allows of the cold Norway, and of 

 North America, of the diftant Kamtfchatka, of 

 thë temperate parts of Europe, of Aleppo, and 

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



*^ In cold countries, a defe6t of infedt food, on 

 the approach of winter, is a fufRcient reafon for 

 thefe birds to quit them : but fince the fame 

 çaufe probably does not fubfift in the warm cli- 



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