BARN SWALLOW. 
(Hirundo rufa , Gmel. H. amcricana, Wilson, v. p. 34. pi. 38. 
fig. 1. and 2. Phil. Museum, No. 7609.) 
Sp. Charact. — Above, and band on the breast, steel-blue; front 
and beneath chesnut-brown, paler on the belly ; tail forked, with 
a white spot on the lateral feathers, the outer ones narrow and 
long. 
The Barn Swallow arrives in Florida and the mari- 
time parts of Georgia about the middle of March, but is 
not seen in the Middle States before the last of that 
month or the beginning of April. Their northern migra- 
tion extends to the sources of the Mississippi, where they 
have been seen by Mr Say, at Pembino, in the latitude 
of 49°. They retire from Massachusetts about the 18th 
of September, and are observed, in the same month and 
in October, passing over the peninsula of Florida on 
their way to tropical America, where they probably pass 
the winter. I have seen a straggling pair in this vi- 
cinity even on the 15th of October. In the months of 
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