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Miss Marion B. Keyes tells me that at Eastern Point, Glouces*- 
ter, Mass, on Aug. 3 she saw a brood of four young Swallows leave 
the nest which was on a ledge under the roof of a piazza. The 
old Swallows spent nearly the whole forenoon in persuading them 
to fly calling to them from the opposite side of the piazza and 
taking short flights to show them how. By noon all the young had 
departed-.' Miss Keyes is sure of this for she stood on a chair 
and looked into the nest which was posit ibrely empty-.' That event- 
ing at sundown all four of the young Swallows returned to the 
nest, crowded into it and spent the night there. Both of their 
parents also returned and roosted on the ledge near the nest* 
Miss Keyes afterwards learned from the friend who owns the house 
that the young Swallows returned on each of the three following 
nights making four nights in all. Thid is the only instance that 
has ever come to my notice of young birds of any kind returning 
to their nest*. 
