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opposite: “thou art the robber,” they might say or 
sing to the Sparrow. 
The ordinary number of the eggs is for the most part 
two, but sometimes three; and J.J. Briggs, Esq. has, 
in one instance, at Melbourne, in Derbyshire, known 
four. Speaking of the nest that contained them, he 
also relates “‘a pair of Swifts has inhabited a particular 
hole in a cottage, for more than twenty summers.” 
This is not a solitary instance of four eggs being found 
in one nest. They are white. 
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