CHIMNEY SWALLOW. 
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ratio- “'"•■‘'■tions, or economy of these hirds, the 
notitf onutry they inhabit, or the superstitious 
is th ®iifurteiued of them ; his only object at present 
bilit * of "lu error, u'hich, from the respccta- 
|j„ those by whom it was uiivv-arily adopted, has 
n but too exteusively disseminated, and received by 
too many as a truth.” 
GENUS XIV. — CrPSELL’S, Illioeh. 
69. crpsELtrs pelasgius, temm. 
nu^fvo FELJSGIAj WILSON'. CHIMNEY SWALLOW, WILSON. 
WILSON, PLATE XXX, X. PIG. I—EOIKBUUGH COLLEGE MLSEGM. 
j. species is peculiarly our own; and strnno-lw 
distinguished from all the rest of our swallows by^te 
ngure, mght, and manners. These peculiarities shtill be 
® as the nature of the subject requires. 
Ills swallow, like all the rest of its tribe in the 
Inti' migratory, arriving in Pennsylvania 
over 'ti early in May, and dispersing themselves 
chimoe,!; wherever there are vacant 
for tbeL summer sufficiently high and convenient 
us ai-e ®®‘^?"*'*'‘odation. In uo other situation with 
stance at present to build. This circum- 
birds emsh 1^' the query. Where did these 
Deans in arrival of Euro- 
for tlieir oountry, when there were no such places 
in the I would answer, Probably 
build in In® ®“”^‘'ons in which they still continue to 
where Pnr ^ J'eniote regions of our western forests, 
to be ’'"P';f>''ements of this kind are scarcely 
some cases fbe hollow of a tree, which, in 
choice nf nearest resemblance to their present 
State of "f f**® fij’st settlors in the 
laro-c bolln,..' 1 ' T me, that he cut down a 
Bests of the f which contained forty or fifty 
foil of the tv ’"‘‘"y l^y fhe 
ee, or by the weather, were lying at the 
