House Swallow

Bent on loftier flights than such a poor house-swallow as a teacher in a ❋ Unknown (2007)

The swallows commonly found on the Nilgiris in summer are the Nilgiri house-swallow (_Hirundo javanica_) and the red-rumped or mosque swallow (_H. erythropygia_). ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The house-swallow has the rump glossy black, but it displays a good deal of red about the head and neck. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The house-swallow, or chimney-swallow, is undoubtedly the first comer of all the British _hirundines_; and appears in general on or about the 13th of April, as I have remarked from many years 'observation. ❋ Various (1887)

The ticking of the clock was so distinct that it made an echo in the high hall; the morning sun streamed across the pavement, from the cloistered garden the chirping of a few sparrows and the sharper twitter of the house-swallow that had already nested under the eaves sounded very clearly through the closed glass door. ❋ Unknown (1881)

The material employed by him for this purpose is a kind of agglutinated mud, which he procures from the neighbouring watercourse or quagmire, and somewhat similar to that used by the common house-swallow for constructing _its_ peculiar nest. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Perhaps, hereafter, I may be induced to take the house-swallow under consideration, and from that proceed to the rest of the British hirundines. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

Dear Sir, -- The house-swallow, or chimney-swallow, is undoubtedly the first comer of all the British hirundines; and appears in general on or about 13th April, as I have remarked from many years 'observation. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

The swift appears about ten or twelve days later than the house-swallow: viz., about the 24th or 26th April. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

I know to be wrong from repeated observation this summer; for house-martins do feed their young flying, though it must be acknowledged not so commonly as the house-swallow; and the feat is done in so quick a manner as not to be perceptible to indifferent observers. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

The house-swallow washes by dropping into the water as it flies: this species appears commonly about a week before the house-martin, and about ten or twelve days before the swift. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

"having completely the structure of that of the house-swallow," it must once have, existed, for Bechstein was far too good a naturalist to have confounded any distinct species with the domestic pigeon. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)