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See also:SWAN, J . M.
the shining See also:steel-See also:blue upper plumage, and the dusky See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white —in some cases reddening so as almost to See also:vie with the frontal and gular patches—of the See also:lower parts are well known to every See also:person of observation, as is the markedly forked tail, which is become proverbial of this See also:bird.
Taking the word See also:swallow in a more extended sense, it is used for all the members of the See also:family Hirundinidae,' excepting a few to which the name See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
martin (q.v.) has been applied, and this family includes from 8o to 10o See also:species, which have been placed in many different genera. The true swallow has very many affines, some of which range- almost as widely as itself does, while others seem to have curiously restricted limits, and much the same may be said of several of its more distant relatives. But altogether the family forms one of. the most circumscribed and therefore one of the most natural See also:groups of Oscines, having no near See also:allies; for, though in outward See also:appearance and in some habits the swallows See also:bear a considerable resemblance to swifts (q.v.), the latter belong to a different See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, and are not Passerine birds at all, as their structure, both See also:internal and See also:external, proves. It has been sometimes stated that the Hirundinidae have their nearest relations in the flycatchers (q.v.) ; but the assertion is very questionable, and the supposition that they are allied to the Ampelidae (cf. Waxw1NG), though possibly better founded, has not been confirmed. An See also:affinity to the See also:Indian and Australian Artamus (the species of which genus are often known as See also:wood-swallows or swallow-shrikes) has also been suggested but has not been accepted. (A. N.)
SWALLOW-HOLE, in See also:physical See also:geography the name applied to a cavity resulting from the See also:solution of See also:rock under the See also:action of See also:water, and forming, or having at some See also:period formed, the entrance to a subterranean stream-channel. Such holes are See also:common in calcareous (See also:limestone or chalky) districts, or along the See also:line of outcrop of a limestone See also:belt among non-calcareous strata. These cavities are also known as sinks, dolinas or See also:butter-tubs, and by other See also:local names, and sometimes as pot-holes; the last See also:term, however, is also synonymous with See also:Giant's See also:Kettle (q.v.). See See also:CAVE.
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