192 Mr. Vicors’s and Dr. HonsrrzrDp's Description of the 
** The earliest* period of the year that I noticed the appear- 
ance of Swallows was on the 12th of July 1803, when I saw two: 
but I remarked several towards the end of the same month in 
the following year (1804). The latest period I observed them 
was on the 30th of May 1806, when a number of them were 
twittering and flying high in the air.—When I have missed them 
at Paramatta, I have sometimes met with them among the north 
rocks, a romantic spot about two miles to the northward of the 
former place." 
“ The natives call the Swallow, Berrin’nin; they told me it 
built its nest in the hollow limbs of white gum-trees, using 
bark, grass, hair, or similar substances; but when it built in 
. old houses it made use of mud. "These old houses are the 
deserted huts of settlers, who have abandoned their worn-out 
farms; and the nests are constructed on the wall-plates, as - 
they are called in the colony. Of the nests which have been 
brought to me, I have observed that the outside was made of 
mud and the inside lined with feathers. "Though I have seen 
Swallows more or less almost throughout the year, yet it is my 
belief that they are migratory.—The eyes are black.” 
— Fam. CaPRIMULGIDÆ. | 
Genus. CAPRIMULGUS. Linn. et Auct. 
1. GuTTATUS. C. suprà rubicundo-ferrugineus, Jusco-maculatus, 
remigibus brunneis flavo-guttatis, guttis in seriebus quinque 
regulariter dispositis. : 
Partes superiores capitis colli et dorsi, tectricesque alarum primæ 
ex rubicundo-ferrugineo, fusco, nigroque variegatæ : plu- 
* We must bear in mind, that Mr. Caley's observations as to the earliness or late- 
ness of the year have a reference to the year of New Holland, 
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