. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . the table-land of Mexico, where Mr. Bullock first discovered it. says, It inhabits the neighborhood of the Colo-rado of the West, and breeds along the margin on bluffs ofclav, where it attaches its nest, formed of mud and grasses, J 7 Of resembling in some measure that of the Cliff Swallow, butwanting the pendulous neck. The eggs are 4, of a darkclay color, with a few spots of reddish-brown at the largerend. This species is also found abundant on the lowerwaters of the Columbia River, where it breed
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . the table-land of Mexico, where Mr. Bullock first discovered it. says, It inhabits the neighborhood of the Colo-rado of the West, and breeds along the margin on bluffs ofclav, where it attaches its nest, formed of mud and grasses, J 7 Of resembling in some measure that of the Cliff Swallow, butwanting the pendulous neck. The eggs are 4, of a darkclay color, with a few spots of reddish-brown at the largerend. This species is also found abundant on the lowerwaters of the Columbia River, where it breeds in hollowtrees. Gl* ;>2G SWALLOW TRICE. Length nearly 5 inches ; bill narrower than in the following spe-cies. Wings extremely long ; upper part of the head deep green,shaded into dark purple on the hind neck ; back grass-green ; rumpand upper tail-coverts carmine purple by reflection, the lower parts,line over the eye and cheeks pure white ; lower wing-coverts lightgrey; tail cmarginate.—Female, head, neck, and rump greyish-brown, lower parts white ; back as in the BARN SWALLOW. (Hirundo rvfa, Gmel. II. rustica, Aud. Orn. Biog. vol. ii. p. 413. II. americana, Wilson, v. p. 34. pi. 38. fig. 1. and 2. Phil-Museum, No. 7609.) Spec Charact. — Above, and band on the breast, steel-blue ; frontand beneath chesnut-brown, paler on the belly ; tail forked, witha white spot on the lateral feathers, the outer ones narrow andlong. The Barn Swallow arrives in Florida and the maritimeparts of Georgia about the middle of March, but is notseen in the Middle States before the last of that month or BARN SWALLOW. tZi the beginning of April. Their northern migration extendsto the sources of the Mississippi, the Rocky Mountainsand the Fur countries, where distant from the habitations ofman they inhabit caves, particularly those in the limestonerocks. They retire from Massachusetts about the 18th ofSeptember, and are observed, in the same month and inOctober, passing over the
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