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or white variety of the human race is rapidly spreading over 

 this continent, from its eastern borders to the remotest plains 

 bej'ond the Mississippi, the Cliff Swallow advances from the 

 extreme western regions, annually invading a new territory 

 farther to the eastward, and induces us to conclude, that a few 

 more summers will find it sporting in this immediate vicinit}', 

 and familiarly established along the Atlantic shores." 



"Within ten or twelve years [date of writing, 1825], they 

 have become familiar in different localities of Ohio, Kentucky, 

 &c., whence they are extending very rapidly, and have recently 

 appeared in the western part of New-York. In order to show 

 the rapid progress of this little stranger, we quote the follow- 

 ing passage from Mr. Clinton's interesting paper. 



"The Fulvous S.wallow 'first made its appearance at Win- 

 chell's tavern, on the high road, about five miles south of 

 Whitehall, near Lake Champlain, and erected its nest under 

 the eaves of an outhouse, where it was covered by the projec- 

 tion of a roof. This was in 1817, and in this year there was 

 but one nest ; the second year seven ; the third tweutj'-eight ; 

 the fourth forty ; and in 1822 there wei-e seventy, and the 

 number has since continued to increase.' 



' It appeared in 1822 at Whitehall, on the fifth of June, and 

 departed on the twenty-fifth of July, and these are the usual 

 times of its arrival and disappearance.' " 



Audubon states, but where I do not now remember, that the 

 Cliff Swallows were somewhere found in New England on its 

 first settlement at that place, many years ago. 



III. TACHYCINETA 



(A) liicoLOR. White-breasted Sioallow. White-bellied Swal- 

 loio. 



(A common summer-resident nearly throughout New Eng- 

 land.) 



(a). About six inches long. Lustrous steel-green above. 

 White beneath. 



(6). The nest is usually built in a martin-box or other like 

 receptacle, and, in Massachusetts, very rarely in the hole of a 



