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Definition of Tree swallow

1. Noun. Bluish-green-and-white North American swallow; nests in tree cavities.

2. Noun. Of Australia and Polynesia; nests in tree cavities.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tree Swallow

tree pipits tree poppy tree rat tree rats tree ring tree sap tree shrew tree sloth tree sparrow tree squirrel

tree stand tree stands tree stump tree surgeon tree surgery tree swallow (current term) tree swift tree toad tree tobacco tree tomato

tree traversal tree traversals tree trunk tree trunks tree wallaby treebank treebanks treebark treebeard treebound

Literary usage of Tree swallow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"... during their migrations, associate, in countless numbers, at regularly frequented roosting-placee Fio. 110. Bam Swallow. Cliff Swallow. tree swallow. ..."

2. A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America by Thomas Nuttall (1896)
"tree swallow. WHITE-BELLIED SWALLOW. SINGING SWALLOW. TACHYCINETA BICOLOR. CHAR. Above, rich steel blue, wings and tail with green reflections; beneath, ..."

3. Bird-life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds by Frank Michler Chapman (1901)
"Though very generally distributed, there are large areas within the breeding range of the tree swallow tree swallow where it is known only as a migrant. ..."

4. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"The tree swallow 21. Where does the tree swallow make its nest? ... How can we encourage the tree swallow to build near our houses ? Why is the tree swallow ..."

5. Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-life in Plain English for Beginners by Mabel Osgood Wright (1897)
"... tree swallow ; and Bank Swallow. " As a family it is easy to name the Swallows from their way of flying. All are officers who rank high in the guild of ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"One of the swallows which retains its original habits is the beautiful white-bellied or tree-swallow (Tachycineta bicolor). It is of a fine lustrous green ..."

7. Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction: Submitting Outline Plan by Virginia Dept. of public instruction (1911)
"The Purple Martin is the largest and strongest of our species, and the Bank Swallow the smallest, while the Barn Swallow and tree swallow are intermediate ..."

8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"One of the swallows which retains its original habits is the beautiful white-bellied or tree-swallow (Tachycineta bicolor). It is of a fine lustrous green ..."

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