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chiefly, do not fly high like others of the swallow kind) 
over meadows, water, etc. ; fond of dipping in the water. 
Male and female: Much alike. Nest: End of May. 
Situated : In the bare perpendicular face of high sand- 
banks, in a small chamber (about 6 ins. across) at the 
end of holes, 1, 2 or more feet long, and 24 to 3 inches - 
wide, excavated horizontally, or sloping slightly upwards 
out of sandbanks. Many holes together (excavation 
occupies many days, the birds using their beaks). 
Made of: Hay and dried grasses, and a few feathers, 
loosely put together. Second nests: Two broods 
yearly. Eggs: Pure white (shells thin). Four to six. 
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Muscicapa grisola. Family Muscicapide (Lat., fly- 
catchers). J’lycatcher from its habits and food (see 
below). (Lat., musca, a fly, and capio, I sieze ; French, 
grisoller, to warble.) Spotted to distinguish it from 
the Pred Flycatcher (which is white on the under parts, ~ 
rare, and found mostly in the north). Syn.: Beam, 
rafter and post bird, and bee-catcher, names derived 
from its habits and food, as it sits on some prominent 
perch, from which it flies suddenly up every now and 
then to catch passing insects, its only food, in the air, 
with its flattened beak, which closes with an audible 
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