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ADDENDA to the Essay on the torpidity of the 

 Swallow tribe, p. 225. 



PROFESSOR Fabricius of Copenhagen informed me, that 

 fix or feven years ago he faw a Swallow which was rimed up from 

 a pond near that city, and which revived. 



Plot, in his Plinius Anglicus, hath an article de avibus fub- 

 terraneis (/<?. hirundinibus) qui brumali tempore in mineris Cor- 

 nubienfibus reperiuntur. This work of Plot's is fuppofed to be a 

 MS. and I am indebted for the reference to the Reverend and 

 Learned Mr. Price, Bodley Librarian. 



Mr. Roufe hath likewife informed me, that he was prefent 

 when a fwallow was taken out of a hole, by a failor, in the 

 winter, on the banks of the Thames, near Long-Reach, who 

 faid he had often found them there, and could procure more. 



ADDENDA to the essay on Cuckows, p. 245. 



IN the continuation of the Hiftory of the French King's Col- 

 lection, it is afferted, that almofr. all the Cuckows killed are- 

 males ; does not this moft ftrongly prove, that the females are- 

 fitting on their eggs ? 



P. 247. 



I would add to other prevailing and erroneous notions relative 

 to animals, that of the Cameleon's being able to vary its colours- 

 at pleafure, and to the greateit extremes, 



2. & D- 



