32 Idle Days in Patagonia. 
The trees of the Mission House proved very 
attractive to these birds; the tall Lombardy poplars 
were specially favoured, which seems strange, for in 
a high wind (and it was very windy just then) the 
KiFe Harijey, \n 
Swallows congregating. 
slim unresting tree forms as bad a perching- 
place as a bird could well settle on. Neverthe- 
less, to the poplars they would come when the wind 
was most violent ; first hovering or wheeling about in 
an immense flock, then, as occasion offered, dropping 
down, a few at a time, to cling, like roosting 
