. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . olive-brown markings, -OG x -68. This is a common summer resident of our Southern States, arrivingin Florida early in April. It frequents open, rather than dense woods, 31S SWALLOWS. and is particularly numerous in pineries having an undergrowth ofoaks. It may be easily identified, not alone by its color but by itsunique call-note—a clearly enunciated chicky-tucky-tuck. Its songbears a general resemblance to that of the Scarlet Tanager, but tomy ear is much sweeter and less forced. Tlie Louisiana Tanager {607. Piranga ludoviciana)^ a species of ou
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . olive-brown markings, -OG x -68. This is a common summer resident of our Southern States, arrivingin Florida early in April. It frequents open, rather than dense woods, 31S SWALLOWS. and is particularly numerous in pineries having an undergrowth ofoaks. It may be easily identified, not alone by its color but by itsunique call-note—a clearly enunciated chicky-tucky-tuck. Its songbears a general resemblance to that of the Scarlet Tanager, but tomy ear is much sweeter and less forced. Tlie Louisiana Tanager {607. Piranga ludoviciana)^ a species of ourWestern States, has been recorded from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and NewYork. Family Hirundinid^. Swallows. About eighty species of Swallows are known. They are distributedthroughout the world. In their long, powerful wings and small, weakfeet Swallows present an excellent illustration of the effects of use anddisuse. The greater part of their day is passed on the wing, and inalighting they select a perch which they can grasp with Fig. 89.—Barn Swallow. Cliff Swallow. Tree Swallow. Bank Swallow. Swallows live almost exclusively upon insects, which they captureon the wing, their large mouths, as in the case of the Swifts and Goat-suckers, being especially adapted to this mode of feeding. They nest both in pairs and colonies, and during their migrationsassociate in countless numbers at regularly frequented roosting placesor migration stations, which are sometimes in trees, but more often inmarshes, and to which they regularly return each night. They mi-grate, as far as known, entirely by day, their wonderful power of flightenabling them to escape the dangers which beset less rapid fliers. SWALLOWS. 319 KEY TO THE SPECIES. A. Upper parts with metallic reflections. a. Under parts steel-blue. a^. reathcrs on the belly fuscous at the base . 611. Purple Martin $ .a^. Feathers on the belly white at the base . Cuban Martin s . b. Throat chestnut, rufous, or brownish
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