SWALLOWS 45S 



patch on rump ; wings and tail clove brown ; belly white. Immature plum- 

 age : chin and upper throat mixed white, black and cinnamon rufous ; duller 

 above than in adults, otherwise similar. Tail feathers about equal length, 

 or in other words, tail not forked. 



Geog. Dist. — North America, north to Labrador and the Arctic Ocean in 

 the interior, breeding from southern Arizona, southern and Lower California 

 and Texas northward ; seemingly absent from Florida and the West Indies ; 

 wintering in Central and South America. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; common summer resident, (Johnson). 

 Aroostook ; locally common summer resident from the southern sections to 

 the Woolastook Valley, being a bird of civilization, (Knight). Cumberland ; 

 common summer resident, (Mead). Franklin; common summer resident, 

 (Swain). Hancock; common summer resident, both on the outer inhabited 

 islands of the coast and inland, (Knight). Kennebec ; very common summer 

 resident, (Gardiner Branch). Knox; summer, (Rackliff). Oxford, common, 

 breeds, (Nash). Penobscot; locally abundant summer resident, a bird of 

 civilization, (Knight). Piscataquis ; common, breeds, (Homer). Sagadahoc; 

 common summer resident, (Spinney). Somerset; common summer resident, 

 (Morrell). Waldo; locally common summer resident, (Knight). Washing- 

 ton; very abundant summer resident, (Boardman). York; common summer 

 resident, (Adams). 



The earliest date I have ever seen the species at Bangor 

 was April eleventh, which was very exceptional, though on 

 occasions I have seen individuals April twentieth to twenty- 

 sixth, and it is generally about Bangor by May first to third, 

 and the latest I have known them to remain is September 

 fourth. Mr. Brown gives the dates for Portland in his list as 

 about May tenth to fourteenth to September sixth. Though 

 my Bangor dates run earlier than nearly all other New 

 England records, I cannot explain the cause, neither is there 

 any mistaking the identification of this species with its promi- 

 nently blotched rump of rufous. 



On May 20, 1908, at Northwest Carry, I noted a colony of 

 these birds nesting and the nests were already half completed, 

 while the next day at the Pittston Farm I saw another colony 

 whose nests were well along toward completion, indicating an 

 early arrival there. 



They nest in colonies, building the well known flask or 

 retort shaped nest of pellets of mud and clay, which in the 

 east is always placed under the eaves of some building such as 



