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_ 94. THE NATURAL HISTORY ~ 
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of an owl, that was hung from the rafter of a 
barn, On placing“a conch hell the foll owing 
_ year, where the dead owl had hung before, a 
~ Swallow built j in the conch fhell, and both thee 
nefts were lately in Sir Afhton Lever’s Mufeum, — 
Tus ESCULENT SWALLOW. 
All the tail feathers are saarked. with white at the Poa , ; 
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The moft curious circumftance that we are ace 
- quainted with tefpecting this bird, is its neft. Mr. | 
Poivre gives the following relation: That in the 
Streights of Sunda,’ near Java, he went on fhote 
with a failor, on an ifland, called the Little Toe, 
that ina deep cavern in the rocks, upon the beach, 
they found a cloud of little 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 nefts, in the form of cups, flattened 
on one fide, containing each two or three eggs, 
or young birds, and-tined with feathers; he 
brought feveral away with him, and madea rage 
ing of a neft and the birds ; he defcribes them as 
very fnall, not exceeding in fize a Wren, of 
Humming Bird, a 

