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“E. P.” mentions in NATURE of October 22, a date, somewhere about October 20, I presume, which he considers is an unusual one for swallows. Now, though the bulk of the swallows have left by this time, it is by no means unusual to see them later on in the year. In 1894 I saw swallows in Kent, in the neighbourhood of Tonbridge, on October 20, 21, 25 and 27, and the last one on November 11; it was flitting about a village in a bewildered sort of way, with a crowd of village boys throwing mud and clods of earth at it.
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BROWN, J. The Departure of Swallows. Nature 55, 6 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/055006c0
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