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210 are NATURAL HISTORY. 
It muft be fuppofed that there is a good deal i 
imagination in this detail of Mr. Bomare’s ; in 3 
‘deed, Mr. Buffon doubts if Martins ever have 
recourfe to fuch a revenge, having feen Sparrows 
ufurp their nefts, and obftinatel y retain pofleffion, 
though perfecuted for fome days by the Martins, 
who, however, made no attempt to clofe the en- 
‘trance of the neft. 
It would be difficult to bring up Martins ot 
Swallows in confinement, becaufe infe€s feem 
their proper food. ‘There is an account of fome 
children keeping a neft of Chimney Swallows 
alive ten days, by feeding them with that which 
had paffed through other Swallows before; they 
lived very well upon this food, until the procefi 
_ Was interrupted by the mother of the children, 
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_»who feemed to be more attached to neatnefs than 
to philofophical experiments. Leguat, a traveller, 
{peaks of a Swallow that he tamed, and brought 
— from the Canary Iflands ;. he fuffered it to fly out 
in the morning, and it conftantly returned in the 
evening, pe 
The Count’ Buffon mentions a tame. Swallow, 
or Martin, which had conceived fuch an attach. 
ment to its miftrefs, as to remain whole days upon 
her knees, and fhew many expreffions of joy on 
her return, after a fhort abfence. It began r : 
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