Identifier: birdlore19nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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BARN SWALLOW TURNING Photographed by A. A. Allen, Ithaca, N. Y.
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Nesting Habits of the Cliff Swallow 255 Mr. Howard H. Cleaves writes from the Public Museum, New Brighton,N. Y., to the effect that he has observed a colony of a dozen pairs of CliffSwallows on a set of farm buildings at East Jewett, N. Y. Three or four ofthe nests are under the eaves of an old barn which has no paint, but the re-mainder are attached to a smaller outbuilding which wears a yellow coat.Mr. Cleaves also reports two pairs of these Swallows breeding on a red barnbetween Boardville and Erskine, N. J. The paint was scarcely more than astain. One nest was attached to timbers that had been treated with thisstain, the other was located on an untouched area. In June, 1911, Mr. Cleavesnoted three or four nests of Cliff Swallows attached to a stucco barn or shedat Lenox, Mass. He also calls attention to a reproduction of a photographtaken by Fred B. McKechnie of a colony of CMff Swallows at Lunenburg, Vt.,and published on page 341 of the March, 1914, issue of the National Geo-grap

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