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paler; throat whitish; all the tail feathers terminated by a bare- 

 pointed shaft. 



One of these, received from Mr. Abbot, of Savannah, in Georgia, 

 had a brown plumage, inclining to mouse-colour ; and between the 

 gape and the eye a large oval spot of black : the bird was five inches 

 long, and twelve and a quarter in extent of wing, which, when 

 closed, reached beyond the end of the tail, which was not forked, 

 but merely hollowed out at the end. — A second of these was without 

 the black spot between the bill and eye. 



Inhabits Carolina and Virginia, in the summer ; builds in 

 chimnies, forming a curious nest with bits of small sticks, cemented 

 with peach tree gum, or that of liquid amber ; it is open at top, and 

 forms about the third part of a circle ; lays four or five eggs in June, 

 and quits the country in August; often sticks close to the chim- 

 ney wall by the feet, and supports itself, by applying the sharp 

 tail to the sides; and during the day makes a thundering noise, by 

 flying up and down the funnel ; the nest is smaller than that of our 

 Chimney Species, but sometimes packed in such numbers as to stop 

 up the openings for smoke; the egg is smaller than our European 

 one, white, spotted and streaked with black, and grey brown towards 

 the greater end. Mr. Bartram observed vast flights not only of this, 

 but the Bank Martin, pass about the middle of March northward, 

 from Carolina and Florida, towards Pennsylvania, where they breed, 

 and likewise in September and October on their return southward. 

 It is probable, that before those parts were inhabited they built in 

 rocks, and hollows of trees. 



A. — L'Hirondelle brune acutipenne de la Louisiane, Biif. v. 699. 

 Le petit Martinet, Voy. d'Azara, \v. No. 307. 

 L'Hirondelle a queue pointue de la Louisiane, PI. enl. 726. 2. 

 Aculeated Swallow, Gen. Syn. iv. 583. 32. A. Arct. Zool. ii. 433. Var. 



Size of the other. Plumage in general brown ; throat and neck 

 before dirty white, spotted with greenish brown ; tail short, pointed 



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