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by observing that his migration, at least, was ended 

 about five feet farther to the north, where he ahohted 

 on a ledge of an adobe building and busied himself 



Scott, photof^aphi' 



NATIVE SAIL-BOAT ON LAKK CHAPALA 



with a mass of straws, feathers, and mud, — the founda- 

 tion of his nest ! 



It is hard to realize tliat this country, so distant, so 

 strange, shares a bird so typical of our Northern fields 

 as the Barn Swallow. When we find the birds at home 

 amonof the adobe buildinos, something- is chanjifed in 

 our feelinjr toward these little featliered creatures, — 

 they seem less like personal friends ; we realize that, 

 after all, the familiar nest in the hay-loft may be 



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