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places: then they are not fared by a gun, i 
| are often beaten down with poles, and fticks, 2 
they attempt to enter their nefts, 
_ They have a strong grafp with their feet, whic . 
pet: them to cling, to walls, and their bodies 
being flat, they-can enter a narrow crevice. 
. ‘They are much infefted with vermin; and 
: ‘young ones are fometimes found fallen on the 
2 ground under their nefts, which the fleas perhaps 
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may have rendered infupportable. 
For feveral years eight pair were obferved to : 
frequent the Church at Selborne: as they every 
year bred eight pair more, what becomes of the 
increafe?—the parents, perhaps, compel them to 
find fome other fpot. i 
On the 24th of Auguft, Mr. White cbferrel 
_ a folitary Swift, which he difcovered attended 
upon two young ones in a neft, Under the eaves 
of a building: : 
On the 27th they all difappeared. On the vf : 
he had the eaves uncovered, and found ina net 
two dead Swifts, quite putrid, over thefe a ont 
— neft had been formed. : 4 
This proves that Swifts, when fuch a circum 
{lance makes it neceflary, can fubfift here after 
the ufual time of their migration; it likewit 
affords a prefumption, that = raife but ol 
brood in a year. 
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