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authoritative English one. I have called it 

 Monastica, in translation of Shakspeare's 

 " temple-haunting." The main idea about 

 this bird, among people who have any ideas, 

 seems to be that it haunts and builds among 

 grander masses or clefts of wall than the 

 common Swallow. Thus the Germans, besides 

 Church-Swallow, call it wall, — rock, — roof, — 

 or window, swallow, and Mur-Spyren, or 

 Munster Spyren. (Wall-walker? Minster- 

 walker ?) But by the people who have no 

 ideas, the names ' town ' and ' country,' 

 ' urbica ' and * rustica,' have been accepted 

 as indicating the practical result, that a bird 

 which likes walls will live in towns, and one 

 which is content with eaves may remain in 

 farms and villages, and under their straw- 

 built sheds. 



My name, Monastica, is farther justified by 

 the Dominican severity of the bird's dress, 

 dark grey-blue and white only; while the 

 Domestica has a red cap and light brown 

 bodice, and much longer tail. As far as I 

 remember, the bird I know best is the 

 Monastica. I have seen it in happiest flocks 

 in all-monastic Abbeville, playing over the 



