fire, revived. He told me that, out of his great care 

 to preserve them, he put them in a paper bag, and 

 hung them by the kitchen fire, where they were 

 suffocated. 



Another intelligent person has informed me that, 

 while he was a schoolboy at Brighthelmstone, in 

 Sussex, a great fragment of the chalk cliff fell down 

 one stormy winter on the beach, and that many peo- 

 ple found swallows among the rubbish ; but, on my 

 questioning him whether he saw any of those birds 

 himself, to my no small disappointment he answered 

 me in the negative, but that others assured him they 

 did. 



Young broods of swallows began to appear this 

 year on July the eleventh, and young martins {Hi- 

 rtindines tirbicce) were then fiedged in their nests. 

 Both species will breed again once ; for I see by my 

 fauna of last year, that young broods came forth so 

 late as September the eighteenth. Are not these 

 late hatchings more in favour of hiding than migra- 

 tion? Nay, some young martins remained in their 

 nests last year so late as September the twenty- 

 ninth ; and yet they totally disappeared with us by 

 the fifth of October. How strange it is that the 

 swift, which seems to live exactly the same life with 

 the swallow and house-martin, should leave us before 

 the middle of August invariably ! while the latter 

 stay often till the middle of October ; once I even 

 saw numbers of house-martins on the seventh of No- 



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