
6 THE NATURAL HISTORY _ 
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The plumese a icity. bl ic the throat et tt 
toes all forwards. - | 
MPG ida large fpecies ; it comes the lateft, a 
pearing about the latter end of April, and departs: 
the earlieft ; and during its fhort fummer ref 
dence with us, has only time to rear one broc 
Its manner of flying is more rapid, and mo 
| elevated than that of others of the Swallow tribe 
and from the great length of its wings, and fhort 
_ nef of its legs, if it were once on the ground, it 
would have great difficulty in recovering its flicht; 
when this happens, it, waddles in. an aukwatd,” 
embarrafled manner to fome elevation, 2 little 
hillock, or a ftone, from which with great effo 
it contrives to rife. From this ftruture in the 
bird, the whole of its life is fpent in the oppolite 
extremes, of the moft rapid motion, and the m ft 
-abfolute reft. Sometimes, indeed, it is feen 
fix itfelf againft the wall, or the trunk of thet 
near its neft, and to clamber into it with the h 
of its beak and wings, and tail and claws, av 
ing itfelf of every fupport in its power; but 
more frequently it enters its neft on the wing, ¢ 
with that rapiditythat it feems in an inftant to v4 
