. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. A bank swallow tenement. Photo by J. T. Lloyd. nests are more or less supported upon a beam or rafter; the eggs are white and dotted with reddish brown. The bam swallows, aside from their constant twittering, have also a pretty song. Both parents work at building the nest and feeding the young; there are likely to be several pairs nesting in the same building. The parents continue to feed the young long after they have left the nest; often a whole family may be seen sitting on a teleg
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. A bank swallow tenement. Photo by J. T. Lloyd. nests are more or less supported upon a beam or rafter; the eggs are white and dotted with reddish brown. The bam swallows, aside from their constant twittering, have also a pretty song. Both parents work at building the nest and feeding the young; there are likely to be several pairs nesting in the same building. The parents continue to feed the young long after they have left the nest; often a whole family may be seen sitting on a telegraph wire or wire fence, the parents still feeding the well- grown youngsters. This species comes north in the latter part of April and leaves early in September. It winters as far south as Brazil. The bam swallow has a distinctly tailor-made appearance;' its red-brown vest and iridescent blue coat, with deeply forked "coat tails" give it an elegance of style which no other bird, not even the chic cedar waxwing can emulate. The Bank Swallow—When we see a sandy bank apparently shot full of holes as by small cannon balls, we may know that we have found a tenement of bank swallows. These birds always choose the perpendicular banks of creeks or of railroad cuts or of sand pits for their nesting sites; they require a soil sufficiently soft to be tunneled by their weak feet, and yet not so loose as to cave in upon the nest. The tunnel may extend from one to four feet horizontally in the bank with just enough diameter to admit the body of the rather small bird. The nest is situated at the extreme end of the tunnel and is lined with soft feath- ers and grasses. The bank swallows arrive late in April and leave early in Septem- ber. They may be dis- tinguished from the other species by their grayish color above; the throat and breast are white with a broad, brownish band across the breast; the tail is slightly forked. The rough-winged swallow, which is similar in habits to th
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