wood-swallow

wood-swallow
/wood"swol'oh/, n.
any of several slate-colored songbirds of the family Artamidae, of southeastern Asia, Australia, and New Guinea, having long, pointed wings and noted for their swift, soaring flight.
[1850-55]

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