AMERrCAN rURPLE MARTIN. 



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INSESSORES. HIRUNDINIDM. 



FTSSmOSTRES. 





AMERICAN PURPLE MARTIN. 



Hintndo purpurea, Purple Martin, Wilson, Amer. Orn. vol. i. p. 58. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Audubon, Orn. Biog. vol. i. p. 115, pi. 22. 



,, ,, ,, ,, NuTTALL, Man. vol. i. p. 598. 



In the second volume of tliis History of British Birds, 

 pages 274 and 5, I made mention of the Purple Martin of 

 the American ornithologists, Wilson, Audubon, and Nuttall, 

 in consequence of a letter received from Mr. Frederick 

 M'Coy, of Dublin, informing me that a female example of 

 this species had been shot near Kingston, in the county of 

 Dublin, which had been sent for dissection to Dr. Scauler a 

 few hours afterwards, and when preserved was placed in the 

 Museum of the Royal Dublin Society. 



During the first week of September 1842, two other ex- 

 amples of this same species were shot by Mr. John Calvert, 

 of Paddington, at the Kingsbury Reservoir. One of these 

 specimens was lent me by F. Bond, Esq.; it is a young bird 

 of the year, and the outside tail-feathers are not fully grown 

 up. From this bird the figure here inserted was taken. 



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