CHIMNEY SWALLOW. 31 
^September,] the birds quite disappeared; since which 
not^'^ observed a single individual. Though I was 
as- ‘’'"'^‘oate as to be present at their general 
dci*- t ^ ^od council when they concluded to take their 
y “*'o> oor did 1 see them commence their flight, 
anv f persuaded that none of them remain in 
chm*** chimneys here. I have had access to Ross’s 
lio-iit"*^^ "J^ere they last resorted, and could see the 
or a ^ from bottom to top, without the least vestige 
th^*^*^*^*^*^** birds. Mary Ross also informed 
t^ fc ■ ^^'ey have had their chimneys swept previous 
bird fires, and, though late in autumn, no 
have found there. Chimneys, also, which 
the ^eeu used, have been ascended by sweeps in 
them"'*'**'^'' discovering any. Indeed, ail of 
be au’ept every fall and winter, and 1 have never 
iir the swallows being found in either a dead, 
hee*"^’ torpid state. As to the court-house, it has 
g. “ Occupied as a place of worship two or three times 
fias*f*^ tor several weeks past, and at those times there 
tire in the stoves, the pipes of them both 
t>ric^ “'to the chimney, which is shut up at bottom by 
it r,, '' • ' ■ "'"t; iis the birds had forsaken that place, 
there • **^**'*1 P'’,®tty certain that they did not return 
delete’ 't tt'oy did, the smoke, I think, would be 
their existence, especially as I never 
"'as k resort to kitchen chimneys where fire 
enter *t’t the summer. I think 1 have noticed them 
^ havn^f** chinmeys for the purpose of exploring; but 
" eiif noticed that they immediately ascended, and 
Th tii'o and smoke.” 
from ^.'■“''""oy swallow is easily distinguished in air 
*fiort b'^1 tribe here, by its long wings, its 
and its* K ’ ! and slight vibrations of its wing’s, 
rapidity of flight; 
Opbaro.^ swiitiy lu various directions without any 
fr'/i Mn o* tl'c wings, and uttering the sounds 
inir fi, jo o hurried manner. In roost- 
*fi*"'suir ' , '“y o^tremities of its tail are throw n in for 
1 port. It is never seen to alight but in hollow 
