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one taken at Ellicott City, on August 7, 1879, and one taken in 

 Montgomery County, August 3, 1895; District of Columbia, one 

 seen at the Virginia end of the Aqueduct Bridge, on April 11, 1897 

 (Bartsch) ; Pennsylvania, one taken near Philadelphia, April 4, 

 1791, and another in 1857, one captured at Olney in the spring of 

 1888, and one taken at Jerseytown, August 8, 1894; New Jersey, 

 one taken about 1872 at Chatham (Herrick) and one seen at Morris- 

 town, September 18, 1887; New York, one at Raynor South in 

 1837, one about 1845 on the south shore of Long Island, one shot 

 at Pittstown, on July 17, 1886, one seen at Stephentown on April 10, 

 1895, and another recorded on August 22, 1900, from Piermont; 

 Connecticut, one seen July 2, 1877, at Lyme, another noted near 

 Portland during the summer of 1861, while a third was recorded 

 from Saybrook on June 16, 1889 ; Massachusetts, one taken at West 

 Newbury about September 25, 1882, one seen near Northampton in 

 1880, while sometime prior to 1870 one was seen at Whately; Ver- 

 mont, one seen at Waitsfield on April 26, 1913; New Hampshire, 

 one recorded from Franklin in 1875; Ontario, one seen at Port 

 Sydney on July 15, 1897, and Macoun (1903) records one seen at 

 Ottawa prior to 1881, while Fleming (1907) records one from 

 London "said to have been taken [there] many years ago"; Michigan, 

 one taken near Detroit in the summer of 1881, one killed at Saline, 

 on September 15, 1880, two obtained at Petersburg, on June 19, 

 1882, one taken at Ann Arbor on October 4, 1924, and another the 

 same day near Ypsilanti; South Dakota, one shot several years 

 ago near Vermillion, according to S. S. Visher (letter, 1912) ; North 

 Dakota, in addition to the winter record of Coues, about 50 were 

 reported near Jamestown between November 14 and 17, 1881 (Tal- 

 bot, 1882) ; Manitoba, Seton (1908) reports that two were taken 

 near Winnipeg in 1889 and 1892; Saskatchewan, while the species 

 has been reported from this province, Mitchell (1924) considers 

 the records as doubtful ; New Mexico, one reported from the Capitan 

 Mountains on July 10, 1903, one taken at Carlsbad about 1907, while 

 a third was obtained at Cantonment Burgwyn about August 5, 

 1859 ; and Colorado, one shot in August 1877 in Manitou Park. 



Swallow-tailed kites have been on a few occasions recorded from 

 Great Britain as follows : One in 1772 at Balachulish, Argyllshire ; 

 one on September 6, 1805, at Shawgill, Cumberland; one in the 

 summer of 1833 at Farnham, Surrey; one shot in June 1853 on the 

 Mersey River ; and probably another taken in April 1853 at Eskdale, 

 Cumberland (Dalgleish, 1880). 



Egg dates. — Texas to Florida : 81 records, March 10 to May 18 ; 

 41 records, April 7 to 26. 



Iowa : June 3. 



