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it flretch itfclf on my hand, but perceiving it not 
fufficiently come to itfelf, I put it in again : in about 
another quarter, feeling it flutter pretty brifkly, I took 
it out and admired it. Being now perfe&ly recover- 
ed, before I was aware, it took its flight, the cover- 
ing of the boat prevented me from feeing where it 
went : the bird on the board, though expofed to a full 
fun, yet, I prefume from a chillynefs in the air, did not 
revive to be able to fly. 
Remarks by Mr. Collinfon. 
What I colled from this gentleman’s relation is,' 
that it was the practice of the boys, annually to take 
thefe birds, by their apparatus and ready method of 
doing it ; and the frequency of k was no remarkable 
thing to the watermen. Next it confirmed my former 
fentiments, that fome of this Swallow-tribe go away, 
and fome flay behind in thefe dormitories all the win- 
ter. If my friend had been particular as to the fpe- 
cies, it would have fettled that pqint. 
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