Perhaps it may be some amusement to you to hear at what times the different species of hirundines arrived this spring in three very distant counties of this kingdom.
Swifts are very anomalous in many particulars, dissenting from all their congeners not only in the number of their young, but in breeding but once in a summer, whereas all the other British hirundines breed invariably twice.
These hirundines are no songsters, but rather mute, making only a little harsh noise when a person approaches their nest.
These hirundines never perch on trees or roofs, and so never congregate with their congeners.
Doubtless the flight of all hirundines is influenced by, and adapted to, the peculiar sort of insects which furnish their food.
It would be worth inquiring whether any species of hirundines is found in those regions.
And these vast migrations consist not only of hirundines but of bee-birds, hoopoes, oro pendolos or golden thrushes, etc.
Swifts are very anomalous in many particulars, dissenting from all their congeners not only in the number of their young, but in breeding but once in a summer; whereas all the other British hirundines breed invariably twice.
Dear Sir, I am glad to hear that Kuckalm is to furnish you with the birds of Jamaica; a sight of the hirundines of that hot and distant island would be great entertainment to me.
Young broods of swallows began to appear this year on July the eleventh, and young martins (hirundines urbicae) were then fledged in their nests.
All the hirundines of a village are up in arms at the sight of an hawk, whom they will persecute till he leaves that district.
In Buenos Ayres the autumnal migration of the Hirundines begins about the middle of February, and from that date vast numbers of this Swallow are seen travelling north, and, in some seasons, they continue passing for over a month.
As to swallows (hirundines rusticae) being found in a torpid state during the winter in the Isle of Wight or any part of this country, I never heard any such account worth attending to.
And these vast migrations consist not only of hirundines but of bee-birds, hoopoes, Oro pendolos, or golden thrushes, etc.
All the hirundines of a village are up in arms at the sight of a hawk, whom they will persecute till he leaves that district.
Young broods of swallows began to appear this year on July 11th, and young martins (hirundines urbicae) were then fledged in their nests.
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