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trees or chimneys ; is always most gay and actire 
wet and gloomy weather ; and is the earliest abroad 
morning, and latest out in evening, of all our swallorf* 
About the first or second week in September, the/ 
move off to the south, being often observed on thei< 
route, accompanied by the purple martins. 
When we corapai-e the manners of these birds whilj 
here with the account given by Captain Henderson 
those that winter in such multitudes at Honduras, it * 
impossible not to be struck with the resemblance ; o' 
to suppress our strong suspicions that they may prob*' 
bly be the very same. , 
This species is four inches and a half in length, aO' 
twelve inches in extent! altogether of a deep soot/ 
brown, except the chin and line over the eye, whi<* 
are of a dull white ; the lores, as in all the rest, ^ 
black ; bill, extremely short, hard, and black ; nostrilv 
placed in a slightly elevated membrane ; legs, covero* 
with a loose purplish skin ; thighs, naked, and of tb' 
same tint; feet, extremely muscular; the three fot* 
toes, nearly of a length ; claws, very sharp ; the win? 
when closed, extends an inch and a half beyond the W 
of the tail, which is rounded, .md consists of ten feathr'' 
scarcely longer than their coverts; their shafts cxteH* 
beyond the vanes, are sharp-pointed, strong, and vof' 
elastic, and of a deep black colour ; the shafts of tb' 
wing quills are also remarkably strong ; eye, black, sU' 
rounded by a bare blackish skin or orbit. 
The female can scarcely be distinguished from w 
male by her plumage. 
GENUS XV.—nijBVSDO, Lin.vjsus. 
70 . uinuyDO runpuliisAf mxn-SUS and wilsox. 
PURPLS MARTIN. 
WlT.SOX, TLATK XXXIX. TIG. I. MALE. — FIQ. 11. FEMALE^ 
This well-known bird is a general Inhabitant of 
United States, and a particular favourite wherever “ 
