. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 225. — Louisiana Tanager. TANAGERS, SWALLOWS, AND OTHERS 239 ing and useful of all birds, enlivening forest and glade with their songs, distinct aids to nature in beautifying the world. Almost everywhere we may find the swallows, which. Fig. 226. —Swallow and Nest. seem to be preeminently social and the companions ofman (Fig. 226). They have long, slender, pointed wings,short, broad beaks, pointed tails, and very small and deli- 240 TANAGERS, SWALLOWS, AiND OTHERS cate feet. Their nests, as a rule, are at the end of build extrao
. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 225. — Louisiana Tanager. TANAGERS, SWALLOWS, AND OTHERS 239 ing and useful of all birds, enlivening forest and glade with their songs, distinct aids to nature in beautifying the world. Almost everywhere we may find the swallows, which. Fig. 226. —Swallow and Nest. seem to be preeminently social and the companions ofman (Fig. 226). They have long, slender, pointed wings,short, broad beaks, pointed tails, and very small and deli- 240 TANAGERS, SWALLOWS, AiND OTHERS cate feet. Their nests, as a rule, are at the end of build extraordinary mud tunnels, carrying the mudfrom pools in their mouths and plastering it in the desiredshape. In a mud pool near my stable I have seen a flockof swallows carrying off mud to an old building, whileamong them were scores of mud-dauber wasps, also tak-ing mud to carry into the same building for a similar purpose. An Australian mar-tin builds a remark-able structure bearinga resemblance to aninverted bottle fas-tened to the cliff atits base. There areabout eighty speciesof swallows, whichpass much time inmid-air, feeding on the wing, catching gnats, flies, and avariety of insects. They are all remarkable for their flightand for the vast number of miles they must traverse ev
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