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all clean picked, and some half devoured. Tke old birds 
liad been observed to make sad havock for some days among 
the new-flown swallows and martins^ which^ being but 
SPARROW-HAWK. 
lately out of their nests, had not acquired those powers and 
command of wing that enable them, when more mature, to 
set such enemies at defiance. 
LETTER XLIV. 
TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQUIRE. 
Selborne, ISTov. 30, 1780. 
VERY incident that occasions a renewal of 
our correspondence will ever be pleasing and 
agreeable to me. 
As to the wild wood-pigeon, the CEnas or 
Vinago of Ray,^ I am much of your mind, and 
see no reason for making it the origin of the common house- 
Coliimha (le'iasy Lixn. 
