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Petrochelidon lunifrons.
1907
July 26
C ar
Chur
G' hnr
G hr-r-r
c̲a̲r̲ , c̲a̲r̲, c̲a̲r̲ a rather
flat action note, not often
heard & given just as dim
bird toads wing - evidently
a cry of alarm I thought.
Sometimes repeated was a
distance. The young were still
The c̲a̲r̲ - c̲i̲r- the both notes attempts at
repent the bow Swallows now that
long. I do not how they are with their
the young are on wing and fed by the
parents. The young brought up with
air mouths, bright eye with
the same, but a blue
1908
August 5
The callphone voice in front
of Petrochelidon strongly correlated with low wind
conditions this season. I counted
nearly big hundred found to many more
are flying about. Fully 90% were
some Swallows. Some of them straight
in a couple coming the tops of trees
to for breeding, I keeping their
range moving slowly Callon & leaving wings
big tussle flies. On watching them
closely I saw that many of them
were fishing small objects (particularly
moths although, of this I could not
swear) from either after or
under leaves of the trees. I saw two
flying on the tree saplings over
the Callon water.
Looking at some Swallows flying
very fast I saw something shining
every other one the water. I do not
know what this was a thousand
doubt about this and I
the Callon through the freedom.
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