THE SWALLOW. 



distinguished, on the wing or at rest, 

 from either the Swift or the Martin, by 

 its much more deeply forked tail. 



Its nest is generally built in a chimney 

 or on a rafter in a barn, stable, or shed, 

 although I have seen it plastered against 

 a smooth whitewashed wall, on a dang- 

 ling tendril of ivy that had grown through 

 the roof of a shed, under a stone bridge, 

 inside an old limekiln, on a ledge under 

 the eaves of a shed, on a picture-frame, 



YOUNG SWALLOWS ON TELEGRAPH WIRES. 



