Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird of the family Hirundinidæ and genus Petrochelidon: so called from affixing its bottle-nosed nests of mud to cliffs.
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Examples
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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.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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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.
The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927
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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
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Mention was made in January and February of the Indian cliff-swallow (_Hirundo fluvicola_).
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Most of the monsoon broods of the Indian cliff-swallow emerge from the eggs in August.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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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.
Rural Hours 1887
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