Chelidon ervthro&aster . 
Peterborough, New Hampshire. 
1898. 
Abundant, nearly every suitable barn having its colony 
July 5 
to 
Aug .15. 
of breeding birds. There were eight nests in the barn and 
one under a shed, on Ben Mere farm. On Aug . 5th - three of the 
broods had flown, on the 11th only one brood remained in the 
nest. Flocking began July 20, old and young birds collecting 
in long lines on telegraph wires. (July 20®, 21®, 24®, 
28 ©, 29®, 50®, Aug.l^, 2®\ 3 @ , 6^, 7®, 8® ). The song 
twitter was heard constantly through July and up to Aug. 15th. 
1399. 
A brood of young were fed by their parents on the same 
July 
& 
August . 
branch (a short dead branch of a beech near the house) daily 
from July 9th to 14th. 
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