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swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family)

eighth lunar month

golden spadefish (Platax boersii)

Kumamoto-style vermicelli soup

Protectorate General to Pacify the North (Tang-period Chinese office established in Inner Mongolia in 669 CE)

collared pratincole (Glareola pratincola)

swallow

imitation that looks identical to the original

Later Yan (dynastic Chinese state)

common house martin (species of songbird, Delichon urbica)

Oriental pratincole (Glareola maldivarum)

storm petrel (any bird of family Hydrobatidae)

brown-throated martin (Riparia paludicola)

young lover of an older woman

sand martin (Riparia riparia)

rocket larkspur (Consolida ajacis)

white-throated needletail (species of swift, Hirundapus caudacutus)

Ancient Chinese banquet music

tailcoat

swallow chick

diving petrel (esp. the common diving petrel, Pelecanoides urinatrix)

swallow in flight

small pratincole (Glareola lactea)

quickly reversed cut (sword technique)

European storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus)

Asian house martin (Delichon dasypus)

white-rumped swift (Apus caffer)

red-rumped swallow (Hirundo daurica)

swift (any bird of family Apodidae)

common swift (Apus apus)

Pacific swallow (Hirundo tahitica)

swiftlet

Yangqingquan

house swift (Apus nipalensis)

longfin batfish (Platax teira)

tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)

powdered oakblue (butterfly) (Narathura bazalus)

swift's nest (used to make bird's nest soup)

Tiger Swallow Fist

only a hero can understand a hero

maguari stork (Ciconia maguari)

small bird (like a swallow or sparrow)

swift's nest (used to make bird's nest soup)

swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus)

how can a small bird (a sparrow, a petty person) understand the aspirations of a great bird (a phoenix)

Japanese butterfly ray (Gymnura japonica)

threadfin (any fish of family Polynemidae, esp. the striped threadfin, Polydactylus plebeius)