RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Steel, Swallows. CUL-DAR11.1.14d. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. RN1
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Silliman's Jour. vol. 19 p. 357. Describes the first appearance at Union in Maine, of a new kind of swallow, in the first 5 years there were about 50. At Saratoga they arrived in 1828, they have since increased rapidly, so that at in 1831 they were computed at some hundreds. Is not this spreading North.
[Steel, J. W. Swallows: Extract of a letter from Dr. J. W. Steel, of Saratoga Springs, to the Editor, dated Dec., 9, 1830. American journal of science and arts 19: 356-7.]
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