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Title: The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dawson, William Leon, 1873- Jones, Lynds, b. 1865
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Columbus, The Wheaton Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rally distributed of any American bird. Winters in Central and SouthAmerica. Range in Oliio.—Of universal distribution. Not so plentiful as formerly. IT takes six sorts of Swallows to make an Ohio summer, but we call thatday spring when the pleasant twitterings of the Barn Swallows are to be heardin the land. The airy voyageurs have come many a league this morning, butthey have time to peep into the old nests, and to make the empty rafters ring-once or twice with their merry tisic, tisic, before they are out again to skimthe meadows for an early breakfast. The very poetry of motion is theirs asthey ply up and down above the clover tops, or rise at a thought to take aninsect high in the air. See them, too, above the village horse-pond, skurryingafter the nimble fllies, now dipping into the water and just parting its surface,and now steeple lengths aloft, floating and fleeing in higher plane curves offlight. Surely all SwalloA\s are graceful, but he of the forked tail is unsur-passed.
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THE BARN SWALLOW. 277 We may take it as an especial mark of the confiding nature of this birdthat its nest is placed inside the barn, and we shall not be far astray so faras the birds disposition is concerned. But under primitive conditions it is acave dweller, and like Phcebe, has simply done the easiest thing upon the ad-vent of civilization. At the head of a romantic lake in the West I once cameupon a little grotto, which could be entered only from the water—or the air.In a space the size of a small room were half a dozen nests of this Swallowlodged _ __against thegranitewalls. Butso thorough-ly familiardid the birdsappear, thatsave for thecool lappingof the wavesupon therocks I couldhave imag-ined myselfat home infathers barn. Swallowsare very so-ciable crea-tures, and after the families—one or two each season, as the case mav be— have beensuccessfullv brought out, the birds join themselves in great roving companieswhich embrace their own and other kinds. This broad democrac

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