Dear Sir, -- The sand-martin, or bank-martin, is by much the least of any of the British hirundines, and as far as we have ever seen, the smallest known hirundo; though Brisson asserts that there is one much smaller, and that is the _hirundo esculenta_. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
Other colonial birds are the Neotropic cormorant Phalacrocorax olivaceus, black-necked cormorant Phalacrocorax magellanicus, great egret Casmerodius albus, black-crowned night-heron Nycticorax nycticorax and common tern Sterna hirundo. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The park is a significant breeding site for harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus, blackpoll warbler Dendroica striata, common tern Sterna hirundo, and arctic tern S. paridisaea, a nesting site for bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephala, rock ptarmigan Lagopus mutus and American tree sparrow Spizella arborea, and a stopover for migrating shore birds. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Punta Rasa is an important feeding and resting spot for many migratory bird species including Calidris canutus, C. Fuscicollis, Limosa haemastica, Pluvialis dominica, Charadrius falklandicus, and gaviotines (Sterna hirundo). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Peregrini sunt imbres in terra et fluvii in mari Jupiter apud Aegyptos, sol apud omnes; hospes anima in corpore, luscinia in aere, hirundo in domo, Ganymedes coelo, &c. 3861. ❋ Unknown (2007)
= The use of the third person adds to the emotive power of the tricolon 'ager ... hirundo ... ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)
At caret insidijs hominum, quia mitis hirundo est, ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
La hirundo flugis trans la riveron, cxar trans la rivero sin trovis ❋ Helen Fryer (N/A)
Nur la tendon de la regxo oni lasis tie, cxar la regxo diris ke gxi nun apartenas al la hirundo. ❋ Ivy Kellerman Reed (1922)
La hirundo flugis ien, the swallow flew somewhere (in some direction). ❋ Ivy Kellerman Reed (1922)
Unu el cxi tiuj ekrimarkis ke hirundo estas konstruinta sian neston sur la regxa tendo. ❋ Ivy Kellerman Reed (1922)
Sur la nesto, kiu estis bone konstruita el koto, sidis trankvile la hirundo. ❋ Ivy Kellerman Reed (1922)
Ceu passer, hirundo; Ferarumferarum Tom took his pencil and made several hard dots with it on his book-coverferarum73 ❋ Unknown (1917)
_Cornutus_, a treatise on synonyms, and a dictionary in which the words were arranged not alphabetically but according to their supposed etymology -- thus _hirundo_ (swallow) from _aer_ (air). ❋ Preserved Smith (1910)
With such a book as one's only support it was clearly of the highest importance to be good at etymology; with ouis, for instance, not to be troubled by Priscian's fanciful derivation from the Greek, but to know that it came from offero, and was therefore to be found under fero; or again to look for hirundo under aer. ❋ Unknown (1901)
In the Latin version hirundo stood as hir&uatilde; do, and the translator, overlooking the mark of contraction, declared to the astonished world on the authority of Plato that the horse-lecch instead of the swallow was the harbinger of spring. ❋ Unknown (1893)
The swallow, tho called the chimney-swallow, by no means builds altogether in chimneys, but often within barns and outhouses against the rafters; and so she did in Virgil's time: "Garrula quam tignis nidos suspendat hirundo" (the twittering swallow hangs its nest from the beams). ❋ Various (1887)
Here and there a bird may affect some odd peculiar place; as we have known a swallow build down a shaft of an old well through which chalk had been formerly drawn up for the purpose of manure: but in general with us this _hirundo_ breeds in chimneys, and loves to haunt those stacks where there is a constant fire -- no doubt for the sake of warmth. ❋ Various (1887)
This _hirundo_ brings out her second brood toward the middle and end of August. ❋ Various (1887)
Each species of _hirundo_ drinks as it flies along, sipping the surface of the water; but the swallow alone in general washes on the wing, by dropping into a pool for many times together: in very hot weather house-martins and bank-martins also dip and wash a little. ❋ Various (1887)
