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MARTIN. 



Or like the Swallow skims 

 The russet plain. 



SosiERXiLLE— Field Sport. 



The Swallows are unlucky birds to kill. 



Dryden— jy^id and Panther. 



Loud twittering Swallows. 



Eliza Cook, 



The chattering Swallows. 



Savage. 



The little Swallow's wanton wing. 



Burns. 



The winding Swallows. 



QUARLES. 



The arrowy Swallow. 



Jean Ingelow. 



The wheeling Swallow. 



Wordsworth. 



[HiRUNDO RUFULA — Red-rumped Swallow.] 

 Once reported to have been seen at Penzance. 



[HiRUNDO BicoLOR — White-bellied Swallow.] 

 Said to have been once seen near Derby in 1850. 



Genus— CHELIDON. 

 CHELIDON URBICA— Martin. 



The dingy Martin. 



Eliza Cook. 



The pretty, friendly Martin, is happily common throughout 



Herefordshire. The popular idea that good luck attends the 



house that Martins build on, is well put by Shakespeare : — 



This guest of summer, 

 The temple-haunting Martlet does approve 

 By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath 

 Smells wooingly here ; no jutty, frieze, 

 Buttress, nor coign of vantage but this bird 

 Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle : 

 Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd 

 The air is delicate. 



—Macbeth, I-, 6. 



