ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW 



April 20, 1895 

 (Washington) 



I SAW numbers of these birds out in the 

 park, and watched some of them fly 

 in and out of a nest hole in a high rocky 

 bank. They are without the grey band 

 across the breast which the bank swallow 

 has, and are much the soberest of the fam- 

 ily. They look so much shorter than the 

 barn swallow, and gleam white and then 

 brown as they fly in the sunlight. 



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