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Title: Birds through the year
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Thomas, William Beach, Sir, 1868-1957 Collet, Anthony Keeling, 1877-
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London, Edinburgh, T.C. and E.C. Jack, ltd
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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SWALLOW ABOl I ro FEED YOl NGBv G. E. Collins THE LONELIER HOURS 161 the dancers deliberately perform before her eyes, or whetherthe dance is simply an outlet for exultation in her company.As the last glow fades the dancers rapidly desist, and thewhole display is over before midnight. Songs of the summer nights mark audibly the changethat comes over the season between the springlike openingof June and the autumnal ripeness and gravity that tingethe dewy August dawns. For the first ten days of Junethe nightingales are still in song before midnight, thoughthey are rapidly declining; song-thrushes sing late into thewhite twilight hour, and the cries of plovers and water-fowlshow how lightly they are dipped in sleep. The deep andpassionate song of the nightingale seems in accord withthe scents of evening, and the warmth of the early night.Nightingales stop singing, as a rule, when the air beginsto grow chilly towards one oclock ; they are not amongthe earliest singers of the dawn, in the

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