1873. 
Sopt 8. 
1874. 
Aug. 8. 
24 
1879. 
May 21 
1880. 
June 23. 
Juno 15. 
Chaotura pelasgica. 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
200 
Sav/ a single bird flying over Richardson T.ako at 
sunset. Have seen none before for at least a v;eok past. 
Still hero. 
In^ the deserted barn at the Gross place I heard se¬ 
veral Oliimney Sv/ifts tT/’itterLng after dark on the- even¬ 
ing oi August 15 . Inspecting the premises tliis morr.;- 
ing I fo ur.d one o f iolr nosts built in the oi.id o:?' the 
barn near the ridge poll. it v/as glued to the vertical 
face of the boards, and v;as preeisoly similar in every 
v/ay to chimney nests. 
Late this afternoon saw Chimney Sv/ifts collecting 
f 1 om all airaetions a,nd sweeping about the chimneys on a. 
house on Bethel hill. The throng increased rapidly 
til a largo troop \/as circling about the house in a huge 
endless ring. As i t grew darker their anxious nai.ner 
and^ incessant^ twittering shov/ed their impatience to get 
to bed, and they began to drop into one of the chimneys 
a tall slender one of modern shape. /it first, indood ’ 
for many minutes, the majority failed in this attempt. 
They would somehow miss the mouth of the chimney and 
scale off to speedily return and try it over again. 
As it grow darker they seemed to become more successful 
ana at length nearly the whole troup poured down into 
10 Ciiimney in a continuous sti'eam thai seemed as if it 
must fill the space within to overflowing. There vrero 
at least two hundrod birds in all. 
Alva Coolodge tells mo that in.l877, he took a sot 
o from a nest built in a tall dead stub near the 
Outlet He discovered it by seeing the birds fly into 
the hole which was a natural one of rather large size 
entering the side of the trunk. The nest was "constriet- 
od XU .he usual manner and v/as glued to theinside of the 
A pair of these Swifts are at 
pi.^o..t building in a caroenters shop near the min 
attaening their nest to the boards direcfiy over thi 
work bench. 
barn 
of 
9 
the 
Set C-4. Incubated about eight 
placed against the v/all near th 
barn tells me that it has been 
of these birds for several seasons, 
two other rests on his farm 
house, the other in the 
Water wa 
, vror 
the 
of its sides, 
vrhoii the bucket 
lly, but not al'ways, 
days—nest in a 
top. The o'wnor 
occupied by a pair 
Last year there 
, one in the chimney of 
— S'ttached to the masonary 
daily drawn ^from this ^voil and 
was lowered the sitting bird would usua- 
come out-. 
