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of September ; its length was fcarcely five inches ; 
its tail was fhort, and not forked ; the feathers 
were black, but wanted the white fpots ; its breaft 
was tinged with red. Swallows frequently rooft 
at night, after they begin to congregate, by the 
fides of rivers and pools of water, from whence it 
has been fuppofed that they retire into that ele« 
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