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pendicular surfaces. The birds sometimes add 

 mud house to mud house until their homes can 

 be counted by hundreds on the side of a chff. 

 These Swallows become much attached to one 

 locality, and, if allowed, will return to it year 

 after year. 



They are beautiful, gentle and winsome ; and 

 if one really learns to love them, he will not 

 begrudge them a place on the side of the 

 barn, or even, sometimes, upon the side of the 

 house. 



To one who has eyes, the marvelous houses 

 built by these feathered architects will be more 

 artistic than certain "ginger-bread" work that 

 we so often see around cornices. 



Between the Eave and the Violet-green Swal- 

 lows we may never lack for entertainment and 

 objects of loving interest around our homes in 

 the summer months. 



Particular Description. — Male and Female: 

 Whitish forehead ; crown and back, steel lustrous blue ; 

 rump, rusty or huffy; throat, chestnut, with blackish 

 area ; breast, light brown ; lower under parts, white. 



Summer resident. An early arrival. A few 

 come in March, and the body in early April. 



