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THE NATURAL HISTORY 
of an ow!, that was hung from the rafter of a 
barn. On placing a conch fhell the following 
year, where the dead owl had hung before, a 
Swallow built in the conch fhcll, and both thefe 
nefls were lately in Sir Afhton Lever’s Mufeum. 
iThe ESCULENT SWALLOW. 
All the tail feathers are marked with white at the points. 
The moft curious circumftance that we are ac¬ 
quainted with refpedling this bird, is its neft. Mr. 
Poivre gives the following relation : That irt the 
Streights of Sunda, near Java, he went on fhore 
with a failor, on an ifland, called the Little Toe; 
that in a deep cavern in the rocks, upon the teach, 
they found a cloud of iittle birds, which in endea¬ 
vouring to efcape, as they entered, darkened the 
opening of the cavern ; he beat down fome with 
his cane. As he advanced, he perceived the roof 
covered with nefls, in the form of cups, flattened 
on one fide, containing each two or three eggs,, 
or young birds, and lined with feathers ; he 
brought leveral away with him, and made a draw¬ 
ing of a neft and the birds ; he deferibes them as 
very ftnall, not exceeding in ftze a Wren, or 
Humming Bird, 
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