Cliff Swallow

The pretty nocturnal trill of the hairbird; the remarkable change which civilization has wrought in the habits of the cliff-swallow; the disputed question whether the cat-bird is or is not a mocker; -- these and a hundred similar points relate to very common birds, and are accordingly unnoticed by Mr. Samuels. ❋ Various (N/A)

And it was doing it right out in the middle of a desert, bleak, sun-leprosied, forbidding, with only the stars and the moon and the sun and a cliff-swallow or two to behold. ❋ John G. Neihardt (1927)

Of the other birds which nest later in the season mention must be made in the calendar for the present month of the Indian cliff-swallow ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

Mention was made in January and February of the Indian cliff-swallow (_Hirundo fluvicola_). ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

Most of the monsoon broods of the Indian cliff-swallow emerge from the eggs in August. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

That the cliff-swallow should also be a stranger here is not at all remarkable; a few years since, there were none east of the Mississippi. ❋ Unknown (1887)