. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . AVES—SWALLOW 569 are low and guttural. Wasps, bees, and large beetles, seem to be his iavo-rite food. He is eight inches long, and of a rich deep purplish blue, exceptthe wings and tail, which are broAvnish black. THE BARN SWALLOW,^. Together with its whole tribe, are distinguished from the rest of small birds,by their sweeping rapidity of flight, their peculiar aerial evolutions of wingover our fields and rivers, and through our streets from morning to
. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . AVES—SWALLOW 569 are low and guttural. Wasps, bees, and large beetles, seem to be his iavo-rite food. He is eight inches long, and of a rich deep purplish blue, exceptthe wings and tail, which are broAvnish black. THE BARN SWALLOW,^. Together with its whole tribe, are distinguished from the rest of small birds,by their sweeping rapidity of flight, their peculiar aerial evolutions of wingover our fields and rivers, and through our streets from morning to light of heaven itself, the sky, the trees, or any other common objectsof nature, are not better known than the swallows. The wonderful acti\4itydisplayed by these birds, forms a striking contrast to the slow habits of otheranimals. Let a person take his stand on a summer evening by a field,meadow, or river shore, fix his eye on one of these birds, and follow for awhile all its circuitous windings; its extensive sweeps; its sudden, rapidlyreiterated zigzag excursions, little inferior to the lightning itself—and thenattempt to calculate the length of the various lines it describes. On the east side of the great range of the Alleghany, they are dispersedvery generally over the country. Early in May they begin to build, and ittakes nearly a week to complet
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