CHIMSEY SWALLOW. 
for perl * situation tliey continue to i)e fed 
for N“y. it is not uncommon 
•‘fe al 1*^ ' to leave the nest long’ before they 
Whern fi themselves on the wall, 
^yi '®y ®ee ted until able to hunt for themselves, 
derahr”*- birds first arrive in spring, and for a consi- 
in on* ii'®y ®*'*o<^®te together every evening 
ronct;** eendezvous ; those of a whole district 
re])Ose, in the more 
settled parts of the country, is usually a large hollow 
ee open at top; trees of that kind, or swallow tree,% 
they are usually called, having been notii’ed in 
he th^J’,u? ’ r country, and generally believed to 
<hty. Heie they nave been seen on their restirrcction 
spnng, and here they have again been remarked 
cscending to their deathlike sleep in autumn. 
Among various accounts of these trees that might 
in, fi'c following are selected as bearing the 
M Middlebury, in this State,” 
was f IZ’ if Vermont, p. 116, “ there 
viciuitv* f'ollow elm, called by the jieople in the 
years *^}''anow tree. From a niau who for several 
fnformatfon'''’n " ‘" oofy/ods of it, I procured this 
in the tree Hi . ** thought the swallows tarried 
down on winter, and avoided cutting it 
Sows of May the 
middle of th ^ ^“cge numbers, about the 
krew wa ^oon returned. As the weather 
loud noise *’ came out in the morning, with a 
1‘alf an hni’ii-T ““d were soon dispersed. About 
cirrulatinir + s^ii-<lo\vn, tlioy returned in millions, 
descending la^ ^ I'onmX the tree, and then 
from the ground" tI’’®"'" ■'‘^’O”! “-''‘y 
ficinitv to visit <1 • . " customary for persons lu the 
’ ■ ^ f*^oo to observe the motions of these 
1 any persons disturbed their operations. 
'irds: and when 
1-V striki.or Ili persons nisturbcd their operations, 
Soil ? " 'r "dth tkeiraxes 
MiaUous would rush out iu miUions, and with a 
