commonly called, is familiar to almost every farmer's boy. He has often 
watched this bird gathering pellets of mud, carrying them under the 
eaves of the barn where the gourd-shaped nest is built. The cliff swallow 
lives in colonies. The farmer about whose buildings the swallows nest 
should consider himself highly favored. The cliff swallow eats enor- 
and other insects. 
BARN SWALLOW— (Chelidon erythrogasfer.) 
Forehead, throat and upper breast chestnut rufous; rest of under 
parts washed with the same color; upper parts shining steel blue; tail 
long and deeply forked. 
Length about seven inches. 
Arrival. April 22 to May 15. 
Favorite Haunts. In the air, on roofs of buildings, on telegraph and 
telephone wires. 
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