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HIRUNDO FULVA. 
conclude, that a few more summers will find it sporting 1 
in this immediate vicinity, and familiarly established 
along the Atlantic shores. 
Like all other North American swallows, this species 
passes the winter in tropical America, whence in the 
spring it migrates northward, for the purpose of breeding. 
It appears to be merely a spring passenger in the West 
Indies, remaining there but a few days, according to 
Vieillot, who, not seeing any in the United States, and 
observing some while at sea, in August, in the latitude 
of Nova Scotia, supposed that they propagated in a 
still more northern region. As we have not received 
any account of their inhabiting the well explored 
countries around Hudson’s Bay, we are led to the 
conclusion, that the western wikis of the United States 
have hitherto been their summer resort, and that not 
until recently have they ventured within the domains 
of civilized man. Be this as it may, they were observed 
in great numbers, by Major Long’s party, near the 
Rocky Mountains, in the month of July ; and a few 
were also seen on the banks of the Missouri river. 
Within ten or twelve years, they have become familiar 
in different localities of Ohio, Kentucky, &c. whence 
they are extending very rapidly, and have recently 
appeared in the western part of New York. In order 
to shew the rapid progress of this little stranger, we 
quote the following passage from Mr Clinton’s inter- 
esting paper : — 
The fulvous swallow “ first made its appearance at 
Winchell’s tavern, on the high road, about five miles 
south of Whitehall, near Lake Champlain, and erected 
its nest under the eaves of an outhouse, where it was 
covered by the projection of a roof. This was in 1817, 
and in this year there was but one nest; the second 
year seven ; the third twenty-eight ; the fourth forty ; 
and in 1822 there were seventy, and the number has 
since continued to increase. 
“ It appeared in 1822 at Whitehall, on the 5th of 
June, and departed on the 25th of July; and these are 
the usual times of its arrival and disappearance.” 
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