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chimney swallows, being distinguishable at first 

 sight from the three abovementioned species, 

 by their inferior size. 



Mr. Kalm noticed a swallow to alight on 

 the ship in which he was crossing the Atlan- 

 tic from Europe, on the 2d day of September. 



Latham, who quotes AdansoiVs account, evi- 

 dently understood the birds in question to be 

 chimney swallows, and supposes Senegal and 

 the adjacent parts of Africa to be the winter 

 residence of this species. The writers of Le 

 Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, pub- 

 lished at Paris in 1803, seem to have been of 

 the same opinion. Celles (les hironddles) de 

 cheminee, say they, (vol. xi. p. 18.) vont,jusqu au 

 Senegal, ou dies arrivent vers le 9 Octobre, 

 et en repartent au printems. II n'est pas 

 rare dans les migrations d"en voir en mer, qui, 

 lorsquelles sont trop fatiguees, se reposent sur 

 les vergues des navires ; et parmi elles, on a re- 

 connu edits qui habitent parmi nous. 



Another account, which affords additional proof 

 that swallows are birds of passage, though it will 

 not assist us in discovering to what part of the 

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