BARN SWALLOW. 
Chelidon erythrogaster. 
Char. Upper parts steel blue; breast rich chestnut; belly paler; 
tail deeply forked, — outer feathers several inches longer than the inner. 
Length 5/4 to 7% inches. 
A’esl. Attached to a rafter of a barn or the side of a cave ; cup 
shaped ; made of pellets of mud bound with grass, and lined with grass 
and feathers. 
3-6; white, variously marked with dark brown, reddish brown, 
or purplish brown and lilac; 0.75 X 0.55. 
The Bam Swallows arrive in Florida and the maritime parts 
of Georgia about the middle of March, but are not seen in the 
Middle States before the last of that month or the beginning 
