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20), for they had only then found their way out 

 here.' 



The Swallow leaves us about the loth of October, 

 though a few stay on until the 20th of the month, 

 and the bird has occasionally been seen even in 

 November. The Rev. C. WoUey tells me that he 

 observed a single specimen as late as the i6th of 

 that month, in 1866 ; and in 1867, one of Her 

 Majesty's park-keepers informed me that he saw 

 several Martins and Swallows at the beginning of 

 November skimming over the river near the Albert 

 Bridge, Windsor. 



A Swallow built her nest in a belfry a few sum- 

 mers ago, and was always observed to sit perfectly 

 still upon her eggs when the bell rang, although the 

 nest was only a foot distant from the bell, which 

 was a loud-sounding one. Mr. Gould says in his 

 * Birds of Great Britain : ' ^ I find by my note-book 

 that some Swallows were sitting on their eggs under 

 the little romantic bridge at Formosa, near Cookham, 

 Berkshire, as late as the 8th of August.' This, how- 

 ever, does not seem to me very late, and my friend 

 Mr. Wolley informed me that he had seen young 

 Swallows not fledged on the 28th of September — 

 seven weeks later. 



A pure white specimen of this bird was for several 

 days observed flying about Ditton Park by Mr. Paice 

 in August 1863, and was eventually shot between 

 Langley and Uxbridge. 



