BARN SWALLOW. 



(Hirundo rufa, Gmel. H. americana, Wilson, v. p. 34. pi. 38. 

 fig. 1. and 2. Phil. Museum, No. 7609.) 



Sp. Charact. — Above, and band on the breast, steel-blue; front 

 and beneath chesnut-brown, paler on the belly ; tail forked, with 

 a white spot on the lateral feathers, the outer ones narrow and 

 long. 



The Barn Swallow arrives in Florida and the mari- 

 time parts of Georgia about the middle of March, but is 

 not seen in the Middle States before the last of that 

 month or the beginning of April. Their northern migra- 

 tion extends to the sources of the Mississippi, where they 

 have been seen by Mr. Say, at Pembino, in the latitude 

 of 49°. They retire from Massachusetts about the 18th 

 of September, and are observed, in the same month and 

 in October, passing over the peninsula of Florida on 

 their way to tropical America, where they probably pass 

 the winter. I have seen a straggling pair in this vi- 

 cinity even on the loth of October. In the months of 

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