 | Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - 1910 - 502 Seiten
...by dropping into a pool for many times together: in very hot weather house-martins and bank-martins dip and wash a little. The swallow is a delicate songster, and in soft sunny 10 weather sings both perching and flying; on trees in a kind of concert, and on chimney-tops: is also... | |
 | 1904 - 1042 Seiten
...Barrington. The chimney-swallow is to White " a delicate songster; . . . in soft sunny weather [it] sings both perching and flying, on trees in a kind of concert and on chimney tops; " martlets "are no songsters; but twitter in a pretty inward soft manner in their nests;... | |
 | 1904 - 904 Seiten
...Daines Barrington. The chimney-swallow is to White "a delicate songster; . . . in son sunny weather [it] sings both perching and flying, on trees in a kind of concert and on chimney tops; " martlets "are no songsters; but twitter in a pretty inward soft manner in their nests;"... | |
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Each species of hirundo drinks as it flies along, sipping the surface of the water; but the swallow alone in general washes on the wing, by dropping into a pool for many times together: in very hot weather house-martins and bank-martins also dip and wash... 
