. Cecil's book of birds . ries—The Purple-capped Lory —True Parrots — The Grey Parrot — Anecdotes—SwindernsLove-Bird— Cockatoos—The Great White Cockatoo — TheSulphur-crested Cockatoo — Leadbeaters Cockatoo— HuntingCockatoos — Parrots undesirable pets 191 About Our Dickie. The White-throated Sparrow, Zojwtrichia AUricolHx. Our Dickie: Our Home — The Sparrows fraud — A nest of youngMrdl— Thf- abandoned family — Dickie — He b-aves the nest— His playfulness — He goes to the city — His fright — Hismedicine — His death — His ghost! — English Sparrows . 215 Sometimes a-dropping from the skyI heard th
. Cecil's book of birds . ries—The Purple-capped Lory —True Parrots — The Grey Parrot — Anecdotes—SwindernsLove-Bird— Cockatoos—The Great White Cockatoo — TheSulphur-crested Cockatoo — Leadbeaters Cockatoo— HuntingCockatoos — Parrots undesirable pets 191 About Our Dickie. The White-throated Sparrow, Zojwtrichia AUricolHx. Our Dickie: Our Home — The Sparrows fraud — A nest of youngMrdl— Thf- abandoned family — Dickie — He b-aves the nest— His playfulness — He goes to the city — His fright — Hismedicine — His death — His ghost! — English Sparrows . 215 Sometimes a-dropping from the skyI heard the sky-lark sing;Sometimes all little birds that are,How they seemed to fill the sea and airWith their sweet jargoning! The Rime of the Ancient Mariner* L About Swallows. Branch — Yertebrata. — Having a back bone. Class — Aves. — Birds. Order — Insessores. — Perchers. Tribe — Fissirostres. — Having bills deeply cleft. Family — HirwndinidcB. — HEN Summer comes the Swal-lows come. In far off south-ern lands they have escapedthe cold of our dreary wintermonths, and have found, whilewandering, an ever presentspring time. Now, wholeflocks are sweeping about us,darting through the air with a swift flightwhich almost eludes our si^ht. With most ofthe small birds, the Swallows migrate, going to 12 ABOUT S WALLO WS. warm climates in the autumn, and returning tocooler countries in the spring. A few may-creep into hollow trees, and pass the winter in<a torpid condition, like frogs and bears. Atone time it was supposed that they found winterquarters in the water, at the bottom of streamsand ponds. People imagined this because theydid not see the Swallows on their journey, likethe pigeons and geese. But if we rememberthat their usual rate of flying is a mile in aminute, or more than twice the ordinary speedof railway trains, and that, in the day time, theyare almost always on the wing, we see that theselittle
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