166 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



, . . nesting on the sides of huge granite boulders in meadows of La Grulla 

 May 13, and later on the eastern side." ^ It breeds abundantly throughout 

 most of California and thence northward into Alaska, and goes as far south 

 as Paraguay and Brazil in winter. 



Hirundo erythrogaster Bodd. 

 Barn Swallow. 



Mr. Frazar killed two Barn Swallows at Triunfo on April 24, but met with 

 no others until August 28, when, on reaching the sea-coast, he found the bird 

 at San Jos^ del Cabo. During September it was seen almost daily, usually 

 in company with Cliff Swallows. Both species fluctuated considerably in 

 numbers from time to time, for successive migrating flights were continually 

 arriving and passing on, but the Barn Swallows, on the whole, kept increasing 

 up to September 27, when they were really abundant. An interval of com- 

 parative scarcity followed, but they again became very numerous on October 10, 

 the latest date under which the species is mentioned in Mr. Frazar's notes. 



Although the Barn Swallow is here reported for the first time from the 

 Cape Region, it has been seen further to the northward on the Peninsula : — 

 at San Quintin, in May, 1881, by Mr. Belding; at San Jorge, in March, 1888, 

 by Mr. Bryant ; on San Pedro Martir and along the neighboring coast in 

 April and May, 1893, by Mr. Anthony. It is very generally distributed, and 

 rather common in summer, in California, and breeds as far northward as 

 Alaska. Its winter range extends into South America. 



Tachycineta bicolor (Vieill.). 



Tree Swallow. 



Tachycineta bicolor Beldixg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 537 (Cape Region). 

 Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 306 (Cape Region). 



This Swallow was " often seen in winter " in the Cape Region by Mr. 

 Belding, in 1881-82, but no one else appears to have met with it in any 

 part of Lower California. Mr. Frazar, who looked for it very carefully, but 

 vainly, is .strongly of the opinion that the record just quoted requires con- 

 firmation. There is no apparent reason, however, why the bird should not 

 visit Lower California, for it is not uncommon in California proper, and is 

 known to migrate as far southward as Guatemala. 



1 Zoe, IV. 1893, 243. 



