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Sand Martins being drawn out of a cliff on the 

 Rhine, in the month of March 1762. And the 

 honourable Mr. Daines Barrington, this year, 

 communicated to us the follov/ing faft, on the 

 authority of the late Lord Beihaven, that num- 

 bers of Swallows have been found in old dry 

 walls, and in fand-hills near his lordfhip's feat in 

 Eaft Lothian ; not once only, but from year to 

 year ; and that when they were expofed to the 

 warmth of a fire, they revived. We have alfb 

 beard of the fame annual difcoveries near Mor- 

 peth in Northumberland, but cannot fpeak of 

 them with the fame alTurance as the two former : 

 neither in the two laft inflances are we certain of 

 the particular fpecies. 



The above are circumftances we cannot but 

 affent to, though feemingly contradidory to the 

 common courfe of nature in regard to other 

 birds. We muft, therefore, divide our belief re- 

 lating to thefe two fo different opinions, and con- 

 clude, that one part of the Swallow tribe mi- 

 grate, and that others have their winter quarters 

 near home. If it fhould be demanded, why Swal- 

 lows alone are found in a torpid ftate, and noj 

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