
OF BIRDS oa 


Me White, an obfervant Naturalift, and the aka: of 
a an ingenious work, intitled, The Natural Hiftory and An- 
4 -liquities: of Selborne, on Michaelmas- day, 1768, early in 

a - the morame, which was very mifly, on a large wild heath, - 
hw namberlefs Swallows c luflered on the bufhes ; the mo- 
| ment the fun broke out, they were infantly on the wing, 
a and proceeded with an eafy, and placid fight, towards the 
2 fea, After this he faw no more flocks, only now and then a 
Traggler.—See Philofophical a volume 51, part 2, 



Thi is; at oan a ee prefamption of their power to 
perform a very paifant flight. 

. Heldclin, and others, affert, that Sigdliois ae 
en been found in 1 Germany, ina torpid flate, 1 in the hol- 
a bie, who te a a number of Sand ates ae 
out t of a cliff, on the hanks of the River Rhine, in 
| March 
