Swallows that Stayed Behind To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuixa Day News"
Sit,—Regarding "Country Diarist's* reflections of April 10, published your issue of April 13, T would n have been so confident of having observed a swallow in the Western district as late as January 4. (not January 9 as stated) had 1 not been observing swallows in the same locality about 8 am, nearly every sunny morning from the end. of November onwards, whose numbers gradually dwindled from three or four at the end of December 1997 to the Solitary one on January 4.
'A reference to the files of "N.CD. 1N." will show that on and subsequent to January 4 there was a considerable drop, compared to the preceding days, in the maxiinuny and mean temperas tures; and my' recollection is) that} there' was a very definite change in the character of the weather utter that date, no bright sunshine being. with the change the weather, they disappeared, and it na
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