Chaetura nelaKica . 
Concord, Mass . 
1893. 
Aug. 8. 
Aug. 9. 
A good many Swifts were feeding over the meadows and 
river at evening. A few, probably birds tied down by belated 
broods, still linger about the farm houses in this vicinity 
and I saw a pair descend into a neighbor's chimney last 
evening. 
Returning from D.C.F's studio where I spent the forenoon 
I saw, at about 1 P.M. , a flock of fully thirty Chimney Swifts 
.high in air over the village flying in a large circle rising 
and falling in graceful confusion. Others were shimming about 
just above the trees and joining or leaving the main flock 
which revolved over the same spot as long as I was within sigh-fr. 
It looked as if they were preparing to start on migration. 
I heard at least one bird rumbling in our chimney this even- 
ing. — ::: — 
I Glendale, Berkshire Co., Mass. Descending a chimney. 
1899. 2 ? , o 4 , G L ®. All these birds were seen at evening flying 
Sept. 1-15. about lvlr .French' s studio into one of the chimneys of which 
they dropped in quick succession after making a number of 
seemingly vain attempts to do so. Such feints are not uncom- 
mon but on these occasions the birds descended dozens of 
times only to sheer off just as they reached the top of the 
chimney . 
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