. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . ac. R. R. Surv. IX.,pt. II., 1858, p. 311. T. C&S. Rh. D. Kb. Ra. D^ J. E. Specimens.—U. of W. P. Prov. C. ONE vSwalluw does nut make a summer, but a little twittering company(jf them faring northward makes the heart glad, and fills it with a sense ofexaltation as it responds to the call of these care-free children of the remark applies to Swallows in general, but particularly to Tree Swallows,for in their immaculate garb of dark bine and white, they seem like cry
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . ac. R. R. Surv. IX.,pt. II., 1858, p. 311. T. C&S. Rh. D. Kb. Ra. D^ J. E. Specimens.—U. of W. P. Prov. C. ONE vSwalluw does nut make a summer, but a little twittering company(jf them faring northward makes the heart glad, and fills it with a sense ofexaltation as it responds to the call of these care-free children of the remark applies to Swallows in general, but particularly to Tree Swallows,for in their immaculate garb of dark bine and white, they seem like crystalli-zations of skv and templed cloud, grown animate with the all-compellingbreath of spring. They have about them the marks of high-born quality,which we cannot but admire as they spurn with a wing-stroke the lower strata, and rise toaccept we knownot wdiat daintiesof the upijcr not sohardy as Robinand Bluebird, sinceit must maintainan dietof insects. TreeSwallow is, occa-sionally, very ven-turesome as tothe season of itsnorthward a succes-TREE SWALLOW. siou of mild wiu-. Taken in Seattle. Photo by the Author. THE TREE SWALLOW. 345 ters n:ight induce it lo become a permanent resident of the Puget Soundcountry, and it is not certain that it has not ah^eady done so in some in-stances. It often reaches Seattle during the first week in March; while itwas simultaneously observed at Tacoma (Bowles), and Bellingham (Edson)on the 24th day of Februar\, 1905. In 1906 Mr. L. R. Reynolds reportedseeing it in numbers on the Skagit marshes near Fir, on the 1st of February;and Dr. Clinton T. Cooke, looking from his office window in the AlaskaBuilding, saw a large specimen, apparently an adult male, soaring about overthe Grand Opera House, in Seattle, on the 21st day of Januarv. The Tree Swallow is a lover of the water and is seldom to be foundat a great distance from it. It is close to the surface of ponds and lakesthat the earliest insects are to be fo
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