. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. XLVI. IIIUUNDO. SVv ALLOW. Species L H. PUIiPU'iEA. PURPLE MARTIN. [Plate XXXIX. Fig. i, Kale. Fig. 2. Female.] Lath. S^yn. iv., p. .^74, 21. Il)i(l. iv., p. 575, 'J.'i.—Catesb. Car. i., .01.—Arct. Zool. II., No. ZZi.—Uirondelh bleue de la Caroline, Buff, vi., p. 674. PI. Enl. 722.— Le Martinet rauleiir depuiirpre, , ji. 07C.—Turt. Si/st. 029.—Edw. 120.— Hirundo sttliis. Lath, iv., p. 575-24.* This well known bird is a general inhabitant of the United States, and a part
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. XLVI. IIIUUNDO. SVv ALLOW. Species L H. PUIiPU'iEA. PURPLE MARTIN. [Plate XXXIX. Fig. i, Kale. Fig. 2. Female.] Lath. S^yn. iv., p. .^74, 21. Il)i(l. iv., p. 575, 'J.'i.—Catesb. Car. i., .01.—Arct. Zool. II., No. ZZi.—Uirondelh bleue de la Caroline, Buff, vi., p. 674. PI. Enl. 722.— Le Martinet rauleiir depuiirpre, , ji. 07C.—Turt. Si/st. 029.—Edw. 120.— Hirundo sttliis. Lath, iv., p. 575-24.* This well known bird is a general inhabitant of the United States, and a particular favorite wherever he takes up his abode. I never met with more than one man who disliked the Martins anil would not permit them to settle about his house. This was a jxMiurious close-fisted Ger- man, who hated them because, as he said, " they eat his ; I told him ho must certainly be mistaken, as I never knew an instance of Martins eating pi'ag ,* but he replied with coolness that he had many times seen them himself "blaying near the hife, and going sriinip, grfmap," by which I understood that it v, iH his bees that had been the sufl'erers; and the charge could not be denied. This sociable and half domesticated bird arrives in the southern fron- tiers of the Tnited .States late in February or early in .Marcii; reaches Pennsylvania about the first of .April, ami extends bis migrations as far north 08 the country round Hudson's Bay, where he is first seen in May, and disappears in August; so, according to the doctrine of torpid- • We luld the following nynonymoM :—Hirundo purpurea, Linn. ^y.»/. 1., p. 344. —(Imiil. Si/ft. I., p 1020.— Hirundo carulta, Oi*. de I'Am. Sept. pi. 25, male: pi 27, fenialp. Ml. 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 wo
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