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SWALLOW. 
they should return so persistently to a spot that must have been at least two or three miles from where 
the majority were hatched. As we quanted* quietly up the narrow and almost overgrown channel that 
led through the reed-bed, it was easy to obtain a view of the whole colony before they took wing. I 
remarked, on two or three consecutive nights, that about half a score of Pied Wagtails kept company with 
the Swallows. These were running about on the flags and water-plants, and appeared to resort regularly 
to the same spot at roosting-time. 
A specimen of the Swallow has now and then come under my notice so richly tinted with chestnut on 
the breast, as almost to approach the colouring of Uirundo savignei. 
* To work a boat with the long setting-pole or quant used in the eastern counties is, in that district, termed quanting. 
