Some Birds of Rare or Accidental Oc- 
currence in New England. H- A. Pur die 
7. Stelgidopteryx serripennis. Rough- winged Swallow. — A 
female of this species was shot at Suffield, Conn., by Mr. Shores, June 6, 
1874. At last this bird has been taken within our limits. It will be 
interesting to determine whether it proves to be in future a regular visitant 
to New' England. 
Bull. N, O.O, 2, Jan. , 1877. p, 21 
Rough- winged Swallow in Connecticut. — Although not given 
by Samuels as a bird of New England, and classed as “ a rare summer 
visitant” by C. H. Merriam in his “Birds of Connecticut,” the Rough- 
winged Swallow breeds regularly in this State. It has nested for the 
past three seasons in the old stone abutments at a road-crossing over the 
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, within eight or ten rods of 
the depot at Green’s Farms, twenty-six miles west of New Haven. Half 
a dozen pairs nested there last season, and perhaps more ; but, judging 
from the number seen, I should say there were fewer than during the 
season of 1877. I have been unable to account for the fact that more 
than thirty trains could pass within six or eight feet of their nests each 
day, and not drive them away or apparently disturb them in the least. — _ 
J. A. Stannis, Hartford, Conn. BuLL N.O.O. 4, April, 1879, p, //“ 
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