. Citizen bird: scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners. Birds. THE SWALLOWS 193 Under parts white, with a brown band across the breast. Song a sort of giggle — like some little girl's ^Ye know. Nests many together in holes in a clay or loamy bank, lined with feathers and straw. Eggs pure white. A Citizen of most parts of the world — northerly in summer, southerly in winter. A Sky Sweeper. " Bankey is a sociable, useful little bird, liviug usually in great colonies. I have seen a hundred of their holes in a single bank, all dug by these industrious little Swallows with no oth
. Citizen bird: scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners. Birds. THE SWALLOWS 193 Under parts white, with a brown band across the breast. Song a sort of giggle — like some little girl's ^Ye know. Nests many together in holes in a clay or loamy bank, lined with feathers and straw. Eggs pure white. A Citizen of most parts of the world — northerly in summer, southerly in winter. A Sky Sweeper. " Bankey is a sociable, useful little bird, liviug usually in great colonies. I have seen a hundred of their holes in a single bank, all dug by these industrious little Swallows with no other tools than their feeble beaks and claws. AVhen the 3'oung from these nests are learning to fly the old birds are darting to and fro all day long to teach them how to use their wings, and the bank seems like a bustling village ; every bird has some- thing to do and say, and they always try to do both at once. If any one asks you why House People should love and protect Swallows, even if you have forgotten the names of many of the insects they destroy, remem- ber to answer — ' Swallows eat mosquitoes ! ' ". Bank 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 Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. New York : The Macmillan company
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