:::::::::=i: TWO BIRD-LOVERS IN MEXICO B"--"" 



by observing that Ids migration, at least, was ended 

 about five feet farther to the north, where he alighted 

 on a ledge of an adobe building: and busied himself 



Scott, photographer 



NATIVE SAIL-BOAT ON LAKE CHAPALA 



with amass of straws, feathers, and mud, — the founda- 

 tion of his nest ! 



It is hard to realize that this country, so distant, so 

 strange, shares a bird so tyjjical of our Northern fields 

 as the Barn Swallow. When we find the birds at home 

 among the adobe buildings, something is changed in 

 our feelino- toward these little feathered creatures, — 

 they seem less like personal friends ; we realize that, 

 after all, the familiar nest in the hay-loft may be 



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