1 8o MY NATURE NOTEBOOK. 



THE "CHIMNEY" SWALLOW. 



So, too, the latest of the real swallows often 

 betray their distant origin by their endeavours to 

 find lodgings inside our straight brick chimneys. 

 Even in England, in days not very long ago, the 

 swallow was the " chimney swallow," and the 

 "swallow's nest in the chimney" was as familiar a 

 household commonplace as the "sparrow's nest in 

 the water-pipe " to-day. But our modern chimney 

 does not suit the swallow, though many of our 

 latest swallows every year show that they are 

 accustomed to look upon chimneys as their proper 

 homes, by trying to get into them, having, no doubt, 

 been reared in chimneys far away. 



THE ATTRACTION OF THE DOG. 



Our winter visitors sometimes seem to exhibit 

 their foreign manners in other ways. On arrival, for 

 instance, many skylarks seem not to know the 

 difference between the kestrel and other hawks, 

 suggesting that they have been reared in regions 

 beyond the mouse-hunting kestrel's range. They 

 are unacquainted with our dogs, too, and will some- 

 times accompany a harmless terrier in an excited, 

 chattering flock all the way across a field, hovering 

 close above him. It is this unusual interest which a 

 small dog arouses in the minds of foreign birds, who 

 have never seen such an animal, that men who shoot 

 and trap flighting water-fowl utilize, when they send 

 out a trained dog to gambol in view of the birds and 

 tempt them within range of gun or net. So in 



