. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. â tf â r--i ikcn the sound- ly exceeded by rmer hears the th the favorite nd useful guest, to the 20th of r nest, which is es, straws, hay, ies. The eggs, ; spots. They pairs also dwell tiale, very atten- i the task of in- ive apparently a e larger winged such as the com- wallowed whole, ise, and grace of long, as it were, passing through engers with the imong the clouds t ethereal. 1 IG iu alar BARN SWALLOW. {Ilirunda rufa, Gmel. //. amerieana, Wilson, v. p. 34. pi. 38. fig. 1. and 2. Phil.
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. â tf â r--i ikcn the sound- ly exceeded by rmer hears the th the favorite nd useful guest, to the 20th of r nest, which is es, straws, hay, ies. The eggs, ; spots. They pairs also dwell tiale, very atten- i the task of in- ive apparently a e larger winged such as the com- wallowed whole, ise, and grace of long, as it were, passing through engers with the imong the clouds t ethereal. 1 IG iu alar BARN SWALLOW. {Ilirunda rufa, Gmel. //. amerieana, Wilson, v. p. 34. pi. 38. fig. 1. and 2. Phil. Museum, No. 7fi09.) Sp. Charact. â 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 Stales 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 puss the winter. I have seen a straggling pair in this vi- cinity even on the 15th of October. In the months of 51. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859. Cambridge [Mass. ] : Hilliard and Brown
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