barn swallow. 
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tribes I’n ®vidence have we that these fleet-ivinged 
led'i-eii TV.; t'ollowing the natural and acknow- 
Wiuter ?™*‘®"** of many other birds, lie torpid all 
'■ecesses ’ ti ^ trees, caves, and other subterraneous 
I’an of SUTT..;!'! .*'!'® swallow, in the early 
'Bid in .vn ‘'Bind in a hollow tree, 
in .som» „i too, is not denied ; such heing-, 
tile country, (as has been shewn in 
reiulevvfii ^ i ^pecies,) their actual places of 
'’Hostiii.T tli^ii' tirst arrival, and their common 
‘'luo, snv,}! utter ; or that the hank swallows, 
*prino- <itter their arrival, in the early part of 
'‘'■efluemLi ^ mornings which we 
tills stato^ experience at that season, and he found in 
that eith I ®"’ ’'®'®®’ ^ '*•" ‘‘ttle disinite; hut 
in the , tl'® mie or the other has ever hoon found, 
®amiof / c iu a state of torjyidity, 1 do not’ 
are ^ut ®, Millions of ti-ecs, of all dimensions. 
Where i tall and winter of this country, 
tB*' Is ittK ®® Pi'niiei" season, swallows swarm around 
®“ly once • ® *''® '®“''*‘ probable that we should, 
tliaii one or't m an age, have no other evidence 
? I^lr Somoi. j® .^Biliary and very suspicions reports of 
tf Caves wep^'tT made a discovery of this kind ? 
Country on ^ places of winter retreat, perliaps no 
oboice. r could supply them with a greater 
ynrious Darto explored many of these, in 
!'i sprioiT , ^ ' 1C Upited States, both in winter and 
*11 ^entuckv ^ 1 ,'®!^''®* ^i'lcfnlar tract of country 
^'‘'iterraneo ’ ^®'^ *^® barrens, where some of these 
?iid capacious ®®® ^cxcral miles in length, lofty 
bare conversed' ® . IJ*** Y‘"'tcr a largo and deep river— 
they are teuantoi *b® naltjietre workers by whom 
JBstance ofaswniT ’ b}'* never heard or met with one 
^licse people having been found there in winter. 
^ is to be reSi'II' '”‘b ridicule. 
®Jciits have not i ‘®® I ’M a greater number of expert- 
mrotiyl, the winter®®! “'iilcT.liy keeping live swallows 
mepiciity of hird= J .1 cmivince these believers in the 
) ot their mistake. That class of cold- 
