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for their meat when out of fight. Perhaps then their aflbciates 
attend them on the motive of interefl, as greyhounds wait on the 
motions of their finders ; and as Hons are faid to do on the yelpings 
of jack alls. Lapwings andftarlings fometimes affociate. 
LETTER XIL 
TO THE SAME, 
DEAR SIR, March 9, 1772-. 
As a gentleman and myfelf were walking on the fourth of lafb 
November round the fea-banks at Ne-whaven, near the mouth of the 
Lewes river, in purfuit of natural knowledge, we were furprifed to 
fee three houfe-fwallows gliding very fwiftly by us. That morning 
was rather chilly, with the wind at north-weft ; but the tenor of the 
weather for fome time before had been delicate, and die noons re- 
markably warm. From this incident, and from repeated accounts 
which I meet with, I am more and more induced to believe that 
many of the fwallow kind do not depart from this ifland ; but lay 
themfelves up in holes and caverns ; and do, infe6l-like and bat- 
like, come forth at mild times, and then retire again to their latebra. 
Nor make I the leaft doubt but that, if I lived at Newhaven, Sea- 
ford, Brighthelmjlone, or any of thofe towns near the chalk-clifFs of 
the Siilfex coaft, by proper obfervations, I Ihould fee fwallows ftir- 
ring at periods of the winter, when the noons were foft and inviting, 
and the fun warm and invigorating. And 1 am the more of this 
U 2 opinioa 
