336 XORTH AMKUICAN JUliDS. 



])liiciii,n' itsolf iiiidcr tlio ]ir(itc(ti(in dl' man tliionyliont Mint wide cxtont of 

 tciTitoiy. Mv. Aii(liili(iii met witli tliis s[iecies iit llemleisuii, 0:1 tlie Ohio, in 

 ISl'). Two yi'ius liitei' lie I'uiind 11 colony breeding in Newport, Ky., which 

 dated baek to the same year. Several other colonies in that nci.n'hhorliood 

 also first appeared in the .same year. In 1837 i reei'ived their e,u;j;s from 

 Coventry, \'t., at which 'ime they were a new species to me. They were 

 there known as the '" I-lave Swallow," and the time of their first apjiearance 

 could not he determined. I first met with them in 18:!!), at JaflVey, X. II., 

 where they had made their first apiH'arance the year hef'ore, anil were not 

 then known to be anywhere t-lse in that vicinity. The same year I r.ter- 

 wards foinul them in lUirliiij^ton, Vt., where they had been known only for 

 three years. When or where they first appealed in ^lassiiclmsetts is not 

 known. I first observed a larye colony of tiiem in Attlelioroiifih in 1842. 

 Its size imlicatcd the existence of these liirds in that ])lace for .several years. 

 Tlic same year they also ai)peared, apjiareiitly for the first time, in Ijoston, 

 llinyham, and in other ]ila('es in the iiei,niiborlioo('. 



In 1824, l)e Witt Clinton read a paper to the New York Lyceum, stating 

 that he had met with the.se birds at Whitehall, X. Y., at the southern end of 

 Lake Chaiii]ilain, in 1817, alxmt the time of their first a])iieaiance on the 

 Ohio; and li\'v. Zadock Thompson met with tluiiii in Randolph, Yt., at about 

 the same period. (Jeneral Dearliorn noticed them for the first time in Win- 

 throp. Me., in ISod. They first apj'cared at Carlisle, Penn., in 1841. 



Professor Yerrill discovered, in 18(11, a large colony of these birds breeding 

 on the high limestone cliffs of Anticosti, appari'iitly in their original condi- 

 tion, and entirely removed frnin the influences of man. Tliis suggested an 

 in([uiry as to their early ]ireseiK'e in Xortheasteru .Viiieiica. from the in- 

 formati<in he received, lu^ was led t(,) (Mjiicludc! tiiat tliis Swalhnv was known 

 to certain ]iai'ls of Maiiu^ earlier than its first discovery anywhere in the 

 We.st. AVliether these birds were indigenous to the West t>v not cannot now 

 be determined. That they wert! discovered tiiere only so reciuitly as 1820 

 |)rovcs iiiithing. U'e only know that in certain Incalities — such as llock 

 liivcn" <in the ^fississippi, and at Anticosti on tiie St. Lawreiire — their occur- 

 rence in large nnmliers i'l their former nornial condilion of independence 

 suggests in either locality an ecpially remote liegiuning. It is ]iossible, and 

 even iiroliable, tliat in favoralile localities in various parts of the country they 

 existed in isolated colonies. The sctllement of the country, and the multi- 

 ])lication of convenieiii, sheltered, and safe jilaces fbr their nests, gradually 

 wrought a cliangi' in their liabits, and greatly multiplied tiieir niimliers. At 

 St. Stephen, X. I'., and in that neiglib(uliood, Mr. Pioardiiian found this 

 s]iecies as abundant in 1828 as they have been at any time since. They wen; 

 then very plentiful under the eaves of several olil barns in that jiart of the 

 country. Yet twelve years afterward they were entirely unknown on the 

 lower Keiinebeclc. 



Ih'. Coojier fonud this to be an abundant s])ecies in California, on the 



