Alfred Newton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 26… (1911)
“ So trustful is the bird that it commonly establishes itself in any of men's works that will supply the necessary accommodation, and a shed, a barn, or any building with an open roof, a chimney that affords a support for the nest, or even the room of an inhabited house—if chance should give free access thereto—to say nothing of extraordinary positions, may be the place of its choice. ”
Alfred Newton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 26… (1911)
“ Two broods are usually reared in the season, and the young on leaving the nest soon make their way to some leafless bough, whence they try their powers of flight, at first accompanying their parents in short excursions on the wing, receiving from them the food which they are as yet unable to capture, until able to shift for themselves. ”
Alfred Newton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 26… (1911)
“ The true swallow has very many affines, some of which range almost as widely as itself does, while others seem to have curiously restricted limits, and much the same may be said of several of its more distant relatives. ”
