Birds of Dead River Region, Me. F.H, G. 
39. Eirundo erythrogastra , (Bam Swallow). 
Noticed at Farmington. It Is not to be expected 
that this species would be very abundant in a 
thinly populated country. 
O.&O. XI. Oct. 1886. p. 146 
SummepResidents on Southwest 
Ooasfc of Maine. T. H, Montgomery, Jr. 
613. Barn Swallow. Bather uncommon at 
Boothbay. Abundant at Camden. 
and 0, Xos Ubv.iseo, p.162 
Maine Bird Notes. — The Swallow Roost, of which I gave an account 
some years ago (Auk, Jan., 1895, p. 48) has moved to another location 
within two or three years. 
I think the first impulse to change was given by the felling of most of 
the willows which they were wont to frequent. From time to time trees 
had been cleared away, but this cutting was on more wholesale lines and 
not to the Swallows’ liking. There was, however, sufficient small willow 
growth farther back on the point for roosting, but they did not take to it, 
and though the banks are again thick with new growth they have not 
returned. 
The next summer after the cutting of the trees they would collect, yet 
in smaller and smaller numbers, and go through some of their evolu- 
tions, either in memory of old times or from force ’of habit, and then 
depart half a mile southeast to the Kennebec River. I have been told by 
people living close by, that there had been for some time a smaller roost 
on an island in the Kennebec, seven or eight hundred feet long and cov- 
ered by a thicket of willows with an occasional elm tree. It was to this 
roost that the Messalonskee Swallows joined themselves. Here are per- 
formed by a countless host similar interesting manoeuvres to those before 
described and by the same kinds of Hirundinidte. 
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