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conclude, that a few more summers will find it spo rt ' 
iu this immediate vicinity, and familiarly establish 
aloug the Atlantic shores. 
Like all other North American swallows, this sp*'? 
passes the winter in tropical America, whence in.' 
spring it migrates uorth ward, for the purpose of breezy 
It appears to he merely a spring passenger in the W 
Indies, remaining thei'e but a few days, acconlii'r 
Vieillot, who, not seeing any in the United States,? 
observing some while at sea, in August, in the lari? 
of Nova Scotia, supposed that they propagated f 
still more northern region. As we have not recent 
any account of their inhabiting the well expl? 
countries around Hudson’s Bay, we are led to ' 
conclusion, that the western wilds of the United Sw 
have hitherto been their summer resort, and tha 1 
until recently have they ventured within the dot* 11 ? 
ot civilized man. Be this as it may, they were ob‘' t ' ! , j 
in great numbers, by Major Long’s party, neat? 
Rocky Mountains, in the month of duly; and a,j 
were also seen on the banks of the Missouri ri? 
Within ten or twelve years," they have become faH , 
in different localities of Ohio, Kentucky, &c. 
they are extending very rapidlv, and have reC?« 
appeared in the western part of New York. In o''" 
to shew the rapid progress of this little strange 1 '’? 
quote the following passage from Mr Clinton’s i"' 1 
esting paper: — 
The fulvous swallow “ first made its appearai'^u 
Winch ell’s tavern, on the high road, about five 
south ot M hitehall, near Lake Champlain, and ei' 1 ’ 1 
its nest under the eaves of an outhouse, where it ’V 
covered by the projection of a roof. This was in 1^,, 
and in this year there was but one nest; tbe 
year seven; the third twenty-eight; the fourth 
and in 1822 there were seventy, and the numb« r 
since continued to increase. 
“ It appeared in 1822 at Whitehall, on the 5&J 
June, and departed on the 25th of July; and tbesv’ 
the usual times of its arrival and disappearance.’’ 
