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swallows seen today. They were flying about a small pond up 

 Lee's valley." Twenty-five or thirty were seen there until the 

 observers left in June. It was reported that the swallows nested 

 in banks. Gabrielson found them at False Pass, Chignik, Cold 

 Bay, and in the Shumagins, and he obtained specimens at Wide 

 Bay and Cold Bay. 



We have no records of bank swallows west of Unimak. 



Hirundo rustica: Barn Swallow 

 Hirundo rustica erythrogaster 



A specimen from Kodiak was collected by Bischoff in 1888, 

 and Friedmann (1935) mentions other observations there. Os- 

 good (1904) found them breeding commonly in the vicinity of 

 Lake Iliamna and Lake Clark, and he observed them at the 

 mouth of Chulitna River. Turner (1886) found the barn swallow 

 in considerable numbers at Nushagak, where it nested. On July 

 21, 1940, Gabrielson recorded two or three of these birds at 

 Ugashik Lake, and, on July 24, he saw at least 12 about some 

 buildings at the upper end of Iliamna Lake. 



Gianini (1917) found a pair nesting on a house at Stepovak 

 Bay, and, in 1925, I observed several barn swallows among the 

 cannery buildings at Ikatan Peninsula, Unimak Island, where 

 they evidently were nesting. At Unalaska, the barn swallow has 

 been observed by many naturalists, including Turner, Dall, Nel- 

 son, Wetmore, Clark, and McGregor. The last-named observer 

 (McGregor 1906) found a pair nesting "on a rocky shelf in the 

 face of a sea cliff." 



There is no satisfactory evidence as yet that the barn swallow 

 occurs west of Unalaska Island — Turner stated that, in his opin- 

 ion, it does not. 



There is a series of specimens in the National Museum. Among 

 these, at least three are from Unalaska, and others are from Lake 

 Iliamna and Nushagak. These were carefully examined and 

 show that the bird of the Aleutian district is typical erythrogaster. 



Family CORVIDAE 



Perisoreus canadensis: Gray Jay 

 Perisoreus canadensis pacificus 



Osgood (1904) found this jay to be common from Iliamna Pass 

 to Nushagak. Speaking of the Cook Inlet region (1901) he says 

 "Occasionally seen. One morning, after a light fall of snow, a 



