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INSESSOJRES. HIR UND1NID.E. 



FISSIROSTRES. 



AMERICAN PURPLE MARTIN. 



Hirundo purpurea. 



Him ndo purpurea, Purple Martin, WILSON, Amer. Ornith. vol. i. p. 58. 

 AUDUBON, Orn. Biog. vol. i. p. 115, 



pi. 22. 



NUTTALL, Man. vol. i. p. 598. 



., AUD. Birds of America, vol. i. p. 170. 



THE PURPLE MARTIN of the American ornithologists, 

 Wilson, Audubon, and Nuttall, is here included in con- 

 sequence 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. Scouler 

 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 

 examples of the 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 was a 



