March 28, 1776

Posted by sydney on Mar 28th, 1776

Hirundo domestica!  Hirundo agrestis!  Blackbirds are mostly destroyed by shooters.  Farmer Tredgold saw five hirundines at Willey-mill next Farnham playing about briskly over the mill-pond: four, he says, were house-swallows, & the fifth an house-martin with a white rump.  These birds are very early!  Some few bank-martins haunt round the skirts of London, & frequent the dirty pools in St. George’s fields, & near White-chappel: perhaps they build in the scaffold-holes of some deserted house; for steep banks there are none.

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