THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS. 
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And as lightly, be sure, will we bear her away — 
Then look that thy gifts be ample to-day ; 
And open the door, open the door, 
To the swallow open the door ! 
No greybeards are we 
To be foird in our glee ; 
But boys who will have our will 
This day, 
But boys who will have our will. 
In Wilson's " American Ornithology,*' he men- 
tions two different kinds of this bird, the bank- 
swallow or sand-martin, and the barn-swallow, a 
short account of each I take the liberty of extracting. 
Hirundo Jliparia, — Linn, (bank-swallow, or sand- 
martin.) 
He says, " This appears to be the most sociable 
with its kind, and the least intimate with man, of all 
our swallows, living together in large communities 
of sometimes three or four hundred. On the high 
sandy bank of a river, quarry, or gravel pit, at a foot 
or two from the surface, they commonly scratch out 
holes for their nests, running them in a horizontal 
direction to the depth of two, and sometimes three 
feet. Several of these holes are often within a few 
