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either find tlieni accidentally wliile j)ickiii*^- up woniis or 

 grubs, or else they systematically look for them as a regular 

 article of diet. 



Tlie next bird on my list is of an entirely different 

 character. 'I'lie Swift ])ractically lives in the air. wheeling 

 round in innnense circles at great heights, and dasliing in 

 erratic and never-tiring flight throughout tlie hours of day- 

 light. It never seems to rest, or to alight, except to roost 

 and to nest, for which piu'poses it resorts to holes in the 

 roofs of thatched cottao'es, under tiles, and in holes and 

 crevices of church towers and large buildings. Its harsh 

 scream has earned for it in some places the name of '* Jacky- 

 screamer " or " Deviling." It is quite one of the latest to 

 arrive of our sunnner visitors, and the first one to depart. 



YOUXG NiGHTIARS. 



