146 LAND-BIRDS AND GAME-BIRDS 
or white variety of the human race is rapidly spreading over 
this continent, from its eastern borders to the remotest plains 
beyond 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 vicinity, 
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 Swallow ‘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 twenty-eight ; 
the fourth forty; and in 1822 there were 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. 
II. TACHYCINETA 
(A) sicotor. White-breasted Swallow. White-bellied Swal- 
low. 
(A common summer-resident nearly throughout New Eng- 
land.) 
(a). About six inches long. Lustrous steel-green above. 
White beneath. 
(b). The nest is usually built in a martin-box or other like 
receptacle, and, in Massachusetts, very rarely in the hole of a 
