air-cutting-swallows

Updated: May 17, 2025

The active and air-cutting-swallows, now beginning to assemble for migration, seek their prey about the shady places; where the insects, though of differently compounded natures, "fleshless and bloodless," seem to get for coolness, as they do at other times for warmth.

Various - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction : Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827