. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . a pairor more of Spotted Flycatchers. These, from the vantage-point of croquet-hoop, dahlia-stick, or teimis-net. spend thewhole long summers day in catcliing Hies. Here tliey siton tlie watcli. repeatedly flying off to catcli passing insectswith an audible snap of tlie beak, returning generally to thesame place to wait for another. The Sj^otted Flycatcheris one of the latest to arrive of the summer migrants, andone of the most silent. It appears to have no song, butoften utters its short, shrill note. Three species of Hirundin
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . a pairor more of Spotted Flycatchers. These, from the vantage-point of croquet-hoop, dahlia-stick, or teimis-net. spend thewhole long summers day in catcliing Hies. Here tliey siton tlie watcli. repeatedly flying off to catcli passing insectswith an audible snap of tlie beak, returning generally to thesame place to wait for another. The Sj^otted Flycatcheris one of the latest to arrive of the summer migrants, andone of the most silent. It appears to have no song, butoften utters its short, shrill note. Three species of Hirundines are found, but the Sand-martin only in small numbers. For some time the nearestcolony of these birds I coidd find Mas at Broxbourne. butin a gravel-pit near the I^ondon Koad there are a few biurowswhich the men working there declare to \vd\e been used thissummer. Numbers can be seen at the end of sununer passingalong southwards and hawking o^ er the Xew Kiver. and thepools at the sewage-farm are frequented by innnense numbersjust before their final GuLUFiNcit {Can/ite/is elcgans) and Nest. 102 Pictures of Bird Life The Swallows nest in every eowshed and barn around,and also inider all the New lii^er bridges, where thev areparticularly safe from molestation. In Spain tlie Swallows nest freely in the rafters of tlierooms, instead of outside and in tlie ehinmeys, as with one day an ^Vndalusian ■])()sada. or wayside inn,several Swallows were (juietly sitting on their nests just overthe head of the brown and sun-dried liost. I photographedone perching on a nail projecting from tlie whitewashedwall of the patio of the British Consuls house at Bonanza,the small port at the mouth of the Guadalquivir. In this country it is the Martins which chicfiy frequenthuman habitations, but always outside under the caACs. Herethey build up, pellet by pellet, a curious, o^ell-like abodeof mud. and line it j)rofiisely with feathers and a few straws.
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