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WOODLAND BIRDS. 



No. 28. 



Family: Micropodidae. 



CHIMNEY SWIFT. 



Genus: Chaetura. 

 Species: C. pelagica. 



Distribution: 



A common summer resident of all New England. 



Date of Arrival- 

 First of May, or late April. 



Date of Departure: 

 September. 



General Plumage: 



Sooty brown or blackish; upper parts slightly green tinted; 

 under parts paler, especially the throaty wings black. Bill 

 and feet black. Length about 5.00. 



Song and Other N'otcs: 



A sharp loud twitter or chatter. 



Haunts: 



Wanderers of the air, lighting only by their nests in chim- 

 neys and hollow trees. 



