Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . that of the chimney-swallow, but ishemispherical, with the on the side, andis attached to a rock, or. very freipiently, to thew>all of a house, under the eaves or in the upperangle of a window. Two or e\en three Ijroods areproduced in a season, and the old birds returnyear after year to nest in the same spot. House-martins congregate in great numbers, as thechimney-swallows do, before their autumn migra-tion, and disappear all at once. The only oiliercommon British sjiecies of swallow is the (//. ripar
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . that of the chimney-swallow, but ishemispherical, with the on the side, andis attached to a rock, or. very freipiently, to thew>all of a house, under the eaves or in the upperangle of a window. Two or e\en three Ijroods areproduced in a season, and the old birds returnyear after year to nest in the same spot. House-martins congregate in great numbers, as thechimney-swallows do, before their autumn migra-tion, and disappear all at once. The only oiliercommon British sjiecies of swallow is the (//. riparia), smaller than the two jiie-ceding and arriving before them. It has the toesnaked, the tail moderately forked, the ]iluiiiagebrown on the upper parts and across the breast,the under parts white. It makes its nest in .sandyriver-banks, the sides of sand-pits, and other suchsituations (even the turf-covered roofs of peasantshouses ill Norway), excavating a gallery of 18inches or 2 feet, sometimes 3 or even 5 feetill length, and more or less tortuous, iu the. Fig. 2.—Sand-martin (Hirundo riparia). slightly dilated extremity of which some softmaterial is for the reception of the wonderful excavation is accomplished entirelyby the bill of the bird. The floor slopes a littleupwards from the entrance, so that the lodgmentof rain is prevented. The sand-martin, on account ofthe nature of its haunts, i> somewhat more local t banthe other British swallows; but it is distrilmtedover most parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, NorthAmerica, and South America to the Amazon Purple Swallow, or Iurple Martin (11. or rnnjiic/Jiir/riircit), is a North American species, whichis said to have visited the British islands. Thegeneral colour, both of the upper and uniler parts,is shilling ]iurplish blue; the wings and tail abounds in North America, and is a universalfavourite in the northern parts, being hailed asthe harbinger of s]iring, and frc(|iieiiling even th
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