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Can it be a survival of a far past a time when some wide-ranging small falcon, aerial in habits as the swallow itself, preyed by preference on hirundines only ?
Professor Ansted includes the Swallow in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. There is no specimen of any of the Hirundines in the Museum. MARTIN. Chelidon urbica, Linnaeus. French, "Hirondelle de fenêtre."
Notwithstanding, however, the dissimilarity of species, the studies of this old naturalist are directed with a nice particularity, and are colored with an unaffected homeliness, which are very charming; and I never hear the first whisk of a swallow's wing in summer but I feel an inclination to take down the booklet of the good old Parson, drop into my library-chair, and follow up at my leisure all the gyrations and flutterings and incubations of all the hirundines of Selborne.
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