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The fame ingenious naturalifl: afterwards mentions, that he 

 hath feen martins at Totnefs in the months of December r and 

 January, though he never obferved a fwallow at that feafon ; in 

 which fact he is confirmed by a perfon whofe name is Didham, 

 and who faw two martins on the 26th of December at a 

 place called SyrFerton s , 



I mall here fubjoin other facts of the fame kind, which 1" have 

 received from the fame good authority. 



Mr. Manning, a furgeon of reputation in Kingfbridge, when a 

 boy, and in fearch of fparrows nefts, on a headland called the 

 Hope, pulled out from under the thatch of an uninhabited houfe 

 great numbers of fwallows (or martins) which he confidered as 

 dead, but they afterwards revived ; and their number amounted to 

 more than 40. Mr. Manning recollects the fact at prefent as if 

 it had been more recent, and likewife remembers, that the 

 plumage was in perfect order ; -which was the cafe alfo with 

 fome martins, which I received myfelf during the winter, from 

 Camerton in Somerfetfhire, in which there was not the leaft mark 

 of putrefaction. 



Another perfon drew out a great number of martins from the 

 wall of an old caftle in Wales during winter, and the heat of his 

 hands recovered fome of them fo as to fly. 



Again, a plumber in Mr. Corniih's neighbourhood hath made 

 a folemn depofition, that being at work on the leads of Foraby- 

 houfe (fituated on the fea-coalt in Torbay) early in the fpring, he 

 found in fome of the cifterns feveral martins : that he at firft 

 believed them to be dead ; but as they looked not at all decayed, 

 he began to fuppofe they might be only afleep, and that in con- 

 fequence of this idea, curiofity tempting him to hold one of them 



r He obferved fome fo recently as the 7th of December, 1778. 

 6 Phil. Tranf. vol. LXV. part I. p. 346 and 349., 



