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THE NATURAL HISTORY 
In Savoy, the young are efteemed delicate food. 
In the Ifland of Zante, children often take them 
by fufpending a feather upon a hook, at tne end 
of a long thread from the window of a tower, or 
fome elevated building; the Swift feizing the 
feather to convey to his neft, is caught upon 
the hook. 
Swifts are impatient of heat, and on that ac~ 
count pafs the middle of the day in their nefts. 
Like others of their tribe, they are liable to 
be infefted with infers. 
We are indebted to Mr. White, for the fol¬ 
lowing obfervations on the Swift. 
That it eats, drinks, collets materials for its 
neft, and performs every office on the wing, ex¬ 
cept fleeping,. and incuDation ; he thinks he has 
frequently keen them carefs one another in the 
air. , 
The Swift never feems fo much to enjoy itfclf 
as in fultry weather, juft previous to thunder. In 
warm, funny mornings, in little parties, they wing 
their rapid flight round fteeples and churches, 
loueaking in a clamorous manner : thefe are iup- 
pofed to be the males ferenading their females as 
they lit, fince they feldom alter their cry until they 
approach the neft, and thofe within return a little 
note, expreffive of complacency. 
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