. Baby birds at home . d stream. The song is a joyous warble, utteredwhilst the bird is flashing through the air atlightning speed, or sitting at rest on ahouse-top or the branch of a tree. Its nest is constructed of mud intermixedwith straws, and lined with nice soft feathers,and is placed on beams and rafters, insidestables, barns, and sheds, or as alreadymentioned, down the inside of a chimney. The eggs generally number four or five,although as many as six may sometimes befound in a clutch. They are white markedwith dark reddish-brown and ashy-grey spots. Young Swallows are fed by both pare
. Baby birds at home . d stream. The song is a joyous warble, utteredwhilst the bird is flashing through the air atlightning speed, or sitting at rest on ahouse-top or the branch of a tree. Its nest is constructed of mud intermixedwith straws, and lined with nice soft feathers,and is placed on beams and rafters, insidestables, barns, and sheds, or as alreadymentioned, down the inside of a chimney. The eggs generally number four or five,although as many as six may sometimes befound in a clutch. They are white markedwith dark reddish-brown and ashy-grey spots. Young Swallows are fed by both parentbirds, and when they fledge, it is an interest-ing sight to watch them sitting on the roofof a barn waiting for food, or accompanyingthe old birds in little excursions over thefields. During these trial flights they arefrequently fed in mid-air. A few days before Swallows take theirdeparture for the winter, you may generallysee them congregated in flocks on the roofsof houses, or telegraph wires, in the The Stock Dove THE nature student is not likely to con-fuse this bird with its relatives thering dove, or the rock dove, if the followingsimple facts are remembered. The ring dovehas a little patch of glossy white on eitherside of its neck, and the rock dove a largeone on the lower part of its back, whereasthe Stock Dove has none. The Stock Dove is found in most partsof England from the well-wooded districts ofthe south, to the lonely valleys in Westmor-land and Cumberland, is extending its breed-ing area in Scotland, and is found in manyparts of Ireland. The writer discovered apair nesting in a disused rabbits burrowin the Outer Hebrides some years ago. It was thought at one time that all ourdifferent varieties of domestic pigeons hadbeen bred from the Stock Dove, but this isnot so, as the rock dove is the real parentof all tame pigeons. 123 124 Baby Birds at Home The peculiar nesting habits of the speciesunder notice have bestowed upon it inGermany the very su
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