26 Wild Birds and their Haunts 



The names applied to this bird are various, for instance, 

 Fallowsmith, White-tail, or White-rump. 



This clean, inteiesting bird is one of the eailiest of our 

 summer visitants. It breeds in holes, under and among 

 rocks and stones, in the burrows of rabbits, even occasion- 

 ally in those scraped by the Sand-Martin, in old walls, 

 and in quarries, aud its nest has been found in the rents 

 or splits of dry peat mosses. 



It is time for its usual follower, the Sand-Martin, to put 

 in an appearance, for it is noted by the native naturalists 

 that this bird usually arrives before the fourteenth of the 

 month (April). 



