CHIMKEY SWALLOW. 
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ows) find security in the mud at the bottom of lakes, 
vers, and ponds,” yet I cannot, in the cases just cited, 
6e any sufficient cause for such a belief. The birds 
^ ere seen to pass out on the first of May, or in the 
an'rf”^’ "^*‘**' leaves began to appear on the trees, 
ent’ ?*^'”**' middle of September, they were seen 
j ^^“‘S.the tree for the last time; but there is no 
orrnation here of their being seen at any time during 
either within or around the tree. This most 
matter is taken for granted 
sh , ^east examination, and, as wilt be presently 
th**r V foundation. 1 shall, 1 think, also prove, 
■u f t ** trees had been cut down in the depth of 
eitb “ single swallow would have been found 
ine**!^ in a living or torpid state ! And that this was 
.vely a place of rendezvous for active living birds is 
Went, from the “ immense quantity of excrements” 
^nd within it, which bmls in a state of torpidity are 
rel to produce. The total absence of the 
j)l nt nests is a |iroof that it was not a breeding 
of whole was nothing more than one 
places to which this singular bird resorts, 
y on its arrival in May, in w’hich, also, many 
® Wales continue to roost during the whole summer, 
of S "'^’wh they regularly depart about the middle 
j,j. From other circumstances, it appears 
tij “Pw, that some of these trees have been for ages 
the Londezvous or general roosting place of 
Op jt- w chimney swallow's of an extensive district, 
is tb !*a**'^*'.^ conceive the following to be one which 
Os described by a late traveller to ttie westward, 
w-rito curiosities of the State of Ohio, the 
connection with this, I may 
holloM. t ^ large collection of feathers found within a 
Mav i ^ examined, with the Kev. Mr Story, 
abonf f,! *’ upper part of Waterford, 
larwo distant from the Muskingum. A very 
falfon**! '' l''cb, through age, bad decayed and 
halff *T?'“’.®®*daincd in its hollow' trunk, five and a 
eet m diameter, and for nearly fifteen feet upwards. 
