94 BIRD-SONGS ABOUT WORCESTER. 



common cliff or eave swallow correspond- 

 ing to the English window-martin. They 

 both build their hemispherical plaster nests 

 on the sides of steep cliffs, or under the 

 eaves of houses and barns. Shakspeare's 

 well-known lines in Macbeth apply equally 

 well to our own bird : 



This guest of summer, 

 The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, 

 By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath 

 Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, 

 Buttress, nor coigne of van Inge, but this bird 

 Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle ; 

 Where they most breed and haunt, I have ob- 

 served, 

 The air is delicate. 



It is an interesting and curious fact 

 that while in this country the swift 

 builds in chimneys, in England he builds 

 in barns, while the English swallow, cor- 

 responding to our barn-swallow, builds 

 in chimneys. This accounts for our swift 

 being commonly called the chimney- 

 swallow. 



Many of our birds, however, especially 

 those which had no European representa- 



