. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Northern Black Swift. M| Take?i in Santa Cruz County THE BLACK SWIFT NESTERS .A. G. VROOMAN, THE DISCOVERER, TO RIGHT Photo by the Author of the East, miscalled "Swallow," lays its treasures on a shallow bracket of twigs glued together by saliva, and placed against the wall inside a disused chimney. The Vaux Swift of the West makes a similar bracket of twigs, but retains for the most part the primitive custom of nesting inside some fi
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Northern Black Swift. M| Take?i in Santa Cruz County THE BLACK SWIFT NESTERS .A. G. VROOMAN, THE DISCOVERER, TO RIGHT Photo by the Author of the East, miscalled "Swallow," lays its treasures on a shallow bracket of twigs glued together by saliva, and placed against the wall inside a disused chimney. The Vaux Swift of the West makes a similar bracket of twigs, but retains for the most part the primitive custom of nesting inside some fire-hollowed tree or decayed stub. The White-throated Swift, which nests in crevices of cliffs, prepares an elaborate cushion of feathers and other soft substances, which it cements with saliva. It was fair, then, to suppose that the Black Swift, since it nested in cliffs, followed somewhat the same fashion as does its mountain-dwelling associate. But we did not know. Comes now Vrooman of Santa Cruz, naturalist, aged forty, and six- teen years steeped in the lore of local collecting haunts. On June 16th, 1901, he is making his annual rounds of those beetling limestone cliffs, which with their indentations front the sea for thirty miles to west and north of the famed resort on Monterey Bay. The country is a rather desolate one, for the unceasing winds have driven even the reluctant redwoods to take shelter in such canons as occasionally intersect the 976. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, William Leon, 1873-1928; Dickey, Donald R. (Donald Ryder), 1887-1932; Pierce, Wright M; Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953; Brooks, Allan, 1869-1946. San Diego ; Los Angeles ; San Francisco : South Moulton Company
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