. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 398 SIN(JIN(; h i If' #. ot" the (lit'f Swallow with which it was laced; a small colony having taken up their abotle here. These were, as usual, made of pellets of mud, enclosed at the toj), but without the retort necks. Like the rest of their congeners, these birds are almost per- petually on the wing m (juesi of tlies and other small insects which constitute their (ordinary food. ihcir note does not appear to resemble a twitter, and according to Audubon it may
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 398 SIN(JIN(; h i If' #. ot" the (lit'f Swallow with which it was laced; a small colony having taken up their abotle here. These were, as usual, made of pellets of mud, enclosed at the toj), but without the retort necks. Like the rest of their congeners, these birds are almost per- petually on the wing m (juesi of tlies and other small insects which constitute their (ordinary food. ihcir note does not appear to resemble a twitter, and according to Audubon it may be imitated by rubbing a moistened cork round in the neck of a bottle. In Kentucky, until the connnencement (jf incubation, the whole party resorted to roost in the hollow limbs of the buttonwood-trees. However curious, it is certain that the birds have but recently discovered the advantage of associating round the habitations of men. Numerous colonies of this species are touiul throughout Xew Kngland and the Maritime Provinces, and a tew paiis have been seen at I-\)int de Moiits, on the north shore ot the (nilt ot St. Law- rence, which is till- limit of its northward range near the Atlantic, though in the interior it rangrs much farther nortii. It Ijreeds southward to the States, ami winters in South America. It is higlily )'e tliat the habit of breeding in large conunu- nities. and tlnis becoming *• local" in distribution, will account for the report of their having moved eastward during the tirst half of the present century. As a matter of fact. Audubon discovered the species in Kentucky tive years before Say found it amont,' the Pvockies. 'I'hat the older writers knew so little about the bird should not be taken as evidence of its absence. tlu'\- failed to learn the Instory of several ecpially connnon species; and after the added years we are still ignorant of the breeding habits of some of these birds. NoTK.—The CcRAN Clifk Swaliow {J\'trochi'lidon f
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