. Bird legend and life . es, which would seem bare as leafless boughswithout them. Here they have spent the night with headstucked under deafening wings, that shut out the requiemschanted by the resonant voices of mosquitoes and other in-sects for the hosts of their slain kindred whose brief liveshave ended on the day just past. And in the evening gloamthey course about in the air as high as eye can see—apparent-ly for the mere pleasure and exhilaration of being in the air—and of it—then swinging low and dipping down to thevery surface of streams and ponds in pursuit of insects, aerialand aqua
. Bird legend and life . es, which would seem bare as leafless boughswithout them. Here they have spent the night with headstucked under deafening wings, that shut out the requiemschanted by the resonant voices of mosquitoes and other in-sects for the hosts of their slain kindred whose brief liveshave ended on the day just past. And in the evening gloamthey course about in the air as high as eye can see—apparent-ly for the mere pleasure and exhilaration of being in the air—and of it—then swinging low and dipping down to thevery surface of streams and ponds in pursuit of insects, aerialand aquatic—then again taking longer flights, apparentlypursuing only each other. In autumn, when the blended greens of grove and fieldhave changed to crimson and gold and brown, and the humof insect wings is growing more and more faint, we noticethe swallows coursing and speeding about over farmyardsand meadows in larger groups, their numbers augmented bythe broods of summer; and when we see them staying more 64 fltffe/. O - &o 1 +J o c-5
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