THE BANK SWALLOW. 



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Authorities. — Clificolu riparia, Dawson, Auk, \V>1. Xl\'. April, 1807, p. 179. 

 T. [L'.] D-. Kb. D-'. Kk. B. E.( H). 

 Specimens. — Prov. C. 



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BANK SWALLOW. 



THOSE who know, conceive a regard for this plain-colored bird which 

 is quite out of keeping with its humble garb and its confessedly prosy ways. 

 The fact is, we have no other bird so nearly cosmopolitan, and we of the 

 West, who are being eternally reminded of our newness, and who are, indeed, 

 upon the alert for some new shade of color upon the feather of a bird for each 

 added degree of longitude, take comfort in the fact that here at least is an un- 



