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Birds of Passage
Birds of Passage are
such as only come at certain seasons of the year and then disappear again, the
stork, swallow, nightingale, martin, woodcock. quail, &c. which are
supposed to pass the sea to some other climate.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Paˊrents [Hieroglyphically] *
Fishes of Passage