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SWIFT. 



COMMON SWIFT. SWIFT SWALLOW. BLACK MARTIN. 

 SCREECH. SCREECH MARTIN. SCREAMER. 

 CRAN. SQUEALER. 



MARTIN DU, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH. 

 PLATE LIX. FIG. I. 



Hirundo apus, . . . Linn^us. Pennant. Montagu. 

 Cypselus murarius, . . Selbt. Gould. 



Cypselus apus . . . Jentns. 

 Micropus murarius, . . Metee. 



'Brachypus murarius, .' . Meyee. 



The nest is generally placed in holes about steeples 

 of diurchesj and the old walls of lofty towers, as also 

 under the eaves of cottages and barns, crevices under 

 window-sills, and even in hollow trees; under the 

 arches of bridges, in the sides of cliffs, and of chalk- 

 pits. It is roughly formed of straws, wool, grasses, 

 hair, feathers, and such like materials, agglutinated to- 

 gether; picked up with great dexterity while the bird 

 is on the wing, or purloined, so some say, from, or 

 found in the nest of Sparrows, which they appropriate 

 to themselves. It may be that no nest, or next to none, 

 is formed, unless the remains of a Sparrow's nest are 

 used. With the Martins, however, the case is exactly 



