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Title: Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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oint of the vortex falls, individuals drop intothe chimney by degrees, until the whole havedescended. However much we believe in change of scene,it seems odd for a balloonist to live in a cellar, tobe coursing about among the stars one moment,hung up on the wall of a dark sooty flue thenext; but the Swifts are quite put to it, for itwould be very bad form, in fact do outrage to allthe traditions of the race, if one of them wereto perch on a tree for a moment. There isactually no record of their alighting anywhereexcept in a hollow tree or chimney. They evengather their nesting materials on the wing, break-ing off bits of twig in their feet and, it is said,with their bills, literally, in passing. Accord-ingly, as by our deeds the world knows us, theirwings are developed till they look like strips ofcardboard more than bunches of feathers, out-doing those of their Hummingbird connections,who transact their business as tliey go. On theother hand, their feet, like those of Chinese ladies,
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Plate 11. — CHl.M.N KV SWIFT Sooty, throat whitish ; wing-s long- and slender ; tail tipped withspines. Length, about 5^ inches. CHIMNEY SWIFT 25

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