Birds Known to Pass Breeding Season 
nr. 'W'inchend.on, Mass. Wm, Brewster 
52. Tachycineta bicolor. 
Auk, V, Oct,, 1888. p.389 
Bds. Obs. near Graylock Mt. Berkshire 
Co. Mass. June 28- July 16. W, Faxon 
43- Tachycineta bicolor. White-bellied Swallow — A few 
° f N " ,h Ad “"’ ““ ““ »“ 
Auk, Tl. April, 1880. p.102 
White-bellied Swajlows Occupy a 
Chimney Before Migrating. 
About the first of September last, while 
standing at my store door just before dark, I 
saw a large flock of White-bellied Swallows 
hovering around the chimney of Odd Fellows’ 
hall, which is opposite. While watching them 
they began to go into the chimney, sometimes 
a half dozen at once. This continued until all 
had disappeared in the chimney. There must 
have been at least one hundred and fifty. A 
neighbor, coming along at the time, informed 
me that he had seen them go in the chimney 
for a week. Is this not a rare occurrence? 
Lynn, Mass. N. Vickary. 
Gene 
Stray Notes f ron 
Island, Mass. 
Tachycineta bicolor. — All 
White-bellied Swallow appti 
at an elevation of about sixty 
LATE FLIGHT OF SWALLOWS. 
On the 9th inst., about 4 o’clock p.m., we were sur- 
prised, on looking out of a window on West Chester 
Park, by seeing a large flock of swallows flitting about 
high in air, apparently in no hurry to reach any par- 
ticular locality, but feeding quietly along, now to the 
right or left, and now rising gracefully, as all the 
Hirundo family do, to catch a stray insect, but are 
gradually drifting to the southward or southwest. The 
sky was obscured by fleecy clouds, threatning rain, 
and at such times we have often seen the swallows rise 
to great heights, as if to meet and welcome the com- 
ing rain, which they really seem to keenly enjoy. We 
should judge these birds to have reached an altitude of 
from 100 to 300 feet, and the flight continued for a 
quarter of an hour after first being observed. During 
that time hundreds of them must have passed a given 
point. 
We could not, for a certainty, determine the species, 
but their movements indicated II. horreorum , while 
the dark color and square tail would seem to refer them 
to II. lutiifrons. We are, however, fully impressed 
by the opinion that all the swallow family have de- 
parted from this region before the end of September. 
Would any reader of Shooting and Fishing kindly 
inform us through its columns if it is not quite unusual 
for these birds to be seen so late as Oct. 9, in large 
numbers, so far north as Boston? W. Hapgood. 
Oct. 12. 
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