. The natural history of Selborne [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. I â ' li 1^ 4 1^. LETTER IX. 'To the same. Fyfield, near Andover, Feb, iit/>, 1772. i!AR SIR,âYou are, I know, no great friend to migration ; and the well-attested accounts from various parts of the kingdom seem to justify you in your suspicions, that at least many of the swallow kind do not leave us in the winter, but lay themselves up like insects and bats, in a torpid state, and slumber away the more uncom- fortable months till the return of the sun and fine weather awakens them.^ ' This 'ettcr is in ans
. The natural history of Selborne [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. I â ' li 1^ 4 1^. LETTER IX. 'To the same. Fyfield, near Andover, Feb, iit/>, 1772. i!AR SIR,âYou are, I know, no great friend to migration ; and the well-attested accounts from various parts of the kingdom seem to justify you in your suspicions, that at least many of the swallow kind do not leave us in the winter, but lay themselves up like insects and bats, in a torpid state, and slumber away the more uncom- fortable months till the return of the sun and fine weather awakens them.^ ' This 'ettcr is in answer to an essay of Harrington's, published in his " Mis- cellanies," p. 174, " On the Periodical Appearing and Disappearing of Certain Birds at Different Times of the ; In that paper Harrington argues against the pro- bability of periodical migration ; and White here meets many of his rather fanciful difficulties and objections.â Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original White, Gilbert, 1720-1793; Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London; New York : J. Lane
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