344 THE TREE SWALLOW. 
with soft materials, especially feathers. Eggs: 4-6, pure white,—pinkish white 
before removal of contents. Av. size .75 x .54 (19.1 x 13.7). Season: last week 
in May, first week in July; two broods. 
General Range.—North America at large, breeding from the Fur Countries 
south to New Jersey, the Ohio Valley, Kansas, Colorado, California, etc.; win- 
tering from South Carolina and the Gulf States southward to the West Indies 
and Guatemala. 
Range in Washington.—Summer resident; abundant on West-side; not 
common east of the Cascade Mountains. 
Migrations.—S pring: First week in March or earlier; Seattle, March 4, 
1889; March 7, 1890; Tacoma, March 2, 1907; March 3, 1908; Bellingham 
(Edson), Tacoma (Bowles), Steilacoom (Dawson), February 25, 1905; Skagit 
Marshes near Fir (lL. R. Reynolds), February 1, 1906; Seattle (Dr. Clinton T. 
Cooke), January 21, 1906. 
Authorities.—Hirundo bicolor Vieillot, Baird, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. IX., 
join JU, Tse, 1O, suits ARS (CaS, Im, IDES IKiny ike, IDA |]. 1X, 1B. 
Specimens.—U. of W. P. Prov. C. 
ONE Swallow does not make a summer, but a little twittering company 
of them faring northward makes the heart glad, and fills it with a sense of 
exaltation as it responds to the call of these care-free children of the air. 
The remark applies to Swallows in general, but particularly to Tree Swallows, 
for in their immaculate garb of dark blue and white, they seem like crystalli- 
zations of sky and templed cloud, grown animate with the all-compelling 
breath of spring. They have about them the marks of high-born quality, 
which we cannot but admire as they spurn with a wing-stroke the lower 
we. es | Shhata wanGdensemna 
accept we know 
not what dainties 
of the upper air. 
| | While not so 
| hardy as Robin 
| and Bluebird. since 
it must maintain 
an exclusive diet 
of insects, Tree 
| Swallow is, occa- 
sionally, very ven- 
| -turesome as to 
the season of its 
northward flight. 
Taken in Seattle, Photo by the Author’. Lndeed Jassuceess 
TREE SWALLOW. sion of mild win- 
