io6 Birds of Oregon and Washington 



THE BARN SWALLOW. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION : 



Upper parts : glittering steel-blue. 



Under parts: chestnut-brown, with tail deeply 



forked. 



Length, 7 inches. 



Found around barns and out-buildings, while nest- 

 ing; and far afield while feeding, and after breeding is 

 over. 



It is to be regretted that the Barn Swallow is 

 not more generally distributed throughout the 

 North Pacific States. It is expected that it 

 will become a more frequent and familiar resi- 

 dent about our farms and in our villages, if we 

 give it tokens of hospitable welcome, such as 

 offering entrance to our barns through an open 

 window or through a hole in the gable. 



Even now it is very abundant in certain local- 

 ities, especially upon the coast in Tillamook 

 County, Oregon, and about Cape Disappoint- 

 ment, Washington. 



Probably no bird is more associated with the 

 country boy's life, in the East, than this arrow- 

 like but tame bird, that glides in and out of barn 

 doors and windows, ministering to the wants 

 of the brood of little ones in the mud nests stuck 



