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[writer notes finding nests on Tees and tributaries, on Wear and its rivulets, 



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mountains, etc., and adduces John Hancock's Northumbrian experience 



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H. Wallis Kew. Line. N. 



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Joe Kirkby. York Mid W. 



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Swifts [Cypselus apus] laying in Martins [Chelidon urbicd]' Nests [outside 

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R. Lofthouse. York N.E., Durham. 



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