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By a letter from Dr. Finley, Pro voir of the college of New 

 Jerfey, dated May r, 1765, to- the late Dr. Chandler, and foon 

 afterwards communicated to the Royal Society, it appears that 

 the fame notion prevails in America, with regard at leafl to fome 

 fpecies of their fwallows. Kalm alfo mentions their being found 

 torpid in holes and clefts of rocks near Albany °. 



Dr. Pallas gives an account that on the 1 8 th of March a fwallow 

 (perhaps martin) was brought to him, near Ufa, which had 

 been found in a field, to all appearance lifelefs, but having re- 

 mained a quarter of an hour in a warm room, it flew about, and 

 lived fome days, till killed by accident p. 



Mr. Cornifh, an ingenious furgeon, who refides at Totnefs in 

 Devonfiiire, was riming in the river Dart, at the beginning of 

 November, 1 774, and on a very warm day obferved feveral 

 martins iffuing from fome large rocks, overgrown with ivy and 

 thicket. On this appearance, at fuch a time of the year, he de- 

 fifted from his amufement, that he might more attend to the 

 motions of thefe birds, which had been brought out of their" 

 winter- quarters- by the finenefs of the weather, the fun at that 

 time mining flrong on the rocksi They continued to flit back- 

 wards and forwards for almoft half an hour, keeping very near 

 together, and never flying in a direct line, nor when at the far- 

 theft above a hundred yards diflant from the rocks, clofer to 

 which they now (as the fun lowered) began to gather very faff.. 

 Their numbers- were then lefTened confiderably r . and in a very 

 fliort time they all returned to the fi flu res of the rocks, from 

 whence they had been induced' to venture out by the warmth of 

 the evening. Mr. Cornifh concludes- this account by averting 

 very pofitively, that there was- not one fwallow amongft thefe 

 martins % 



0 Vol. II. p.. 146. 



p Pallas s Travels through the Ruffian Territories, past II. book-I. 

 p. 13. Peterfburg, 1773. 



1 Phil. Tranf. vol. LXV. part I. p. 343^ 



