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Acco their going into a state of torpidity, 
tirds^^^h"' ^ next season, having taken some more 
Pursn’ 7 ““o®’ every respect 
Smi-rl*''.! * • same methods as with the last; but, to 
cold t from the bad effects of the diunp and 
pleas. ® the perches with llannel, and had the 
P’ell.'tL observe, that the birds throve extremely 
aftcrV’L during the winter, and, soon 
P'itlio , I’CnOB to moult, n hich they got through 
reo-ui:'*; “"y difficulty, and lived three or four years, 
the i'*.' ^ Moulting every year at the usual time. On 
tails ot their feathers, it appeared that their 
"'hieh' forked exactly the same as in those birds 
their hither in the spring, and in every respect 
1‘ears '**’1’®“™"®'' was the same. These birds, says Mr 
^atii exhibited to the Society for promoting 
tli'e "I'^tory, on the 14th day of February, 1786, at 
frost Th ***®y'werc in a deep moult, during a severe 
this ’ the snow was on the ground. Minutes of 
sociat '' were entered in the books of the 
^ lon<r ni birds died at last from neglect, during 
SRnunar”''S " '‘'ch Mr Pearson had : they died in the 
'account ■ 1 Pe^cson conclndes his very interesting 
now i„ *" , "'oeds : — 20th January, 1797, I have 
Acre £*ny tiouse. No. 21, Great Newport Street, Long 
noy hira***^ swallows in moult, in as perfect health as 
rcls ever appeared to be when moulting.” 
Tl 1 
**cen ena'^”i ®"'jfrow of the United States has hitherto 
Common * , ?' ®d by many writers as the same with the 
however ""“'fy swallow of Euroi.e. They differ, 
*he Eui-on°""**““™‘^’y *'* oolour, as well as in habits; 
^he Amer species having the bellv and vent white, 
‘he forme.':'“l“ *i‘o®frs,those |)arts of a bright chestnut; 
‘he ton tho 1 “ddiug in the corners of chiiniieys, near 
hocus ’;,: such ,)laces ; but usually in 
’’offers &c ol^her outhouses, on beams, braces, 
diirerei’.e«; .r Ji reconcile these constant 
ot manners and markings in one and the 
