sw.\1.1.0\\'s. 33 nest solitary, usually inside of barns. All these

Swallows are brilliantly plumed birds, with coats of glossy steel-blue or green, and vested with snowy white or rufus; but the little Bank Swallow (Cuff/e rz‘pm'z'a) is a lustreless courser of the air, draped only in dull, mouse—colored feathers.

It chooses, however, the grandest home of the tribe. Sometimes it makes its nest in a low bank, but more frequently in the lofty summits of the towering red cliffs that loom orer ocean’s surges, on the wild sea»eoast. How airy and beautiful their ceaseless Circling,r round the dark summit of the great sea—battlement, while the billows surge, and lash, and foam, and thunder belowl

The birds this’ their nest—holes two or three feet into the face of the clay to]; of the Cliffs. At the inner extremities the nests of graSS and feathers are platted, having each four or five pure white eggs.

Swallows stay with us but a short season. No sooner does summer arrive at its full ma— turity in August, and their young are fledged, than they are away to sunnier fields of the

south. 'l'hey gather in great flocks, whenever