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swallows on the telegraph wires, we do not see much 

 of their migratory movements. They go, in the night, 

 in October, as mysteriously as they come in April. 

 Gilbert White relates how he saw something very like 

 actual migration one Michaelmas Day. Travelling 

 early through the morning fog, when some eight miles 

 from the south coast he saw great numbers of swallows 

 clustering on the stunted shrubs and bushes of a large 

 heathland, as if they had roosted there all night. " As 

 soon as the air became clear and pleasant, they all 

 were on the wing at once ; and, by a placid and easy 

 flight, proceeded southwards, towards the sea ; after 

 this I did not see any more flocks, only now and then a 

 straggler." 



