...A number of birds hovered about stream, such as the white-headed fish-eagle and the kingfisher, enormous, snowy spoonbills, ibis, martins, &c... 
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Three of them belong to the groupof Purple Martins (Progne), which is restricted to the New World, andof the remainder four are members of genera entirely restricted to theNeotropical Region...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...Barn Swallows are far more beautiful, more graceful andmore companionable than Purple Martins...
Frank M. Chapman 「What Bird is That?」
...For over thirty years a record was kept on the pole showing thedates of the coming and going of the martins in April and September,which did not vary by more than two or three days during all thattime...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...In the South, where the martins arestill very numerous, a peach grower I know has set up in his orchardrows of poles, with a house on each, either for them or for bluebirds...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...However, the martins continue to come back totheir old home year after year and rear their broods on little heapsof leaves in every room in the house, which is the cheerful fact ofthe story...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...Some day they may become as dependent upon us as the martins and, likethem, refuse to nest where boxes are not provided...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...Such birds as the woodpeckers spend most of their timein the trees and so do not take as readily to a house set on a poleout in the open as martins or bluebirds...
Albert F. Siepert 「Bird Houses Boys Can Build」
...Our Ipswich birds wereall tree swallows,—white-breasted martins,—and might fairlybe supposed to have come together from a comparatively limited extentof country...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...I have repeatedly observedSand Martins flying about with others of the same tribe many milesaway from their homes...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...Free Martins are very much disposed to grow fat with good food...
George Vasey 「Delineations of the Ox Tribe」
..."I never met with more than one man," says Wilson, "who disliked the martins, and would not permit them to settle about his house...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...As one Chalmers isworth a thousand Martins, so is one Hogg worth a thousand Chalmerses...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
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