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| - In the storm of 1886, when heavy snow on 24th January was succeeded by a partial thaw, accompanied by rain, and then followed by frost, large packs of birds came down into the lowlands, and were noticed in lower Swaledale and Wensleydale, Arthington, Weeton, Leeds, and other places remote from their usual haunts, as many as five hundred being seen in one day ; numbers were killed by flying against
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