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river valley; common and breeding at Trail and Penticton, B.C., 

 in June, 1902 and 1903; at Fernie and Baynes lake in 1904; com- 

 mon at Kamloops, Spence Bridge, Agassiz and at Hastings, Bur- 

 rard inlet, B.C., 1889; abundant at Chilliwack, B.C., in spring, 

 nesting in holes in trees. (Spreadborough.) More common -east than 

 west of Coast range. (Lord.) Common summer resident in the 

 coast region; breeds. (Streator.) Abundant summer resident 

 at ChilHwack, B.C. (Brooks.) Uniformly abundant throughout 

 British Columbia up to 5,000 feet. (Rhoads.) Common at Donald, 

 B.C.; and at Vancouver and Victpria in 1894. (E. F. G. White.) 



Breeding commonly in old woodpecker holes in the tall dead 

 firs at the foot of the mountain back of Sitka, Alaska. (Grinnell.) 

 I saw several at Skagway, May 31st, and over the Chilcat marshes, 

 June ist. Others were seen at Cariboo Crossing, B.C. ; others at 

 Lake Marsh and several at Miles Canon; others again at Fort Sel- 

 kirk, Yukon district, entering an old dead tree. (Bishop.) This 

 species has even a wider range than the bam swallow though not 

 breeding so far to the north owing to its nesting in holes in banks 

 and in trees. (Nelson.) On several occasions I saw this swallow 

 flitting about the buildings at St. Michael during the months of 

 August and early September. (Turner.) 



Breeding Notes. — The sudden dissappearance of a swallow as 

 it alighted on a fence was almost startling until I learned that in 

 some deep hollow, decayed out of the heart of an unsplit rail was a 

 very cosy nest of grass and feathers. It was impossible to dislodge 

 the birds that were sometimes out of arm's reach, but several nests 

 examined the last week in June contained young. I have never 

 found this species nesting in such a location before. (Dwight.) 

 This species builds its nest generally in holes in trees 10 to 3O 

 feet from the ground. The nest is made of fine soft grass, well 

 lined with feathers and down. Eggs five, pure white. (G. R. White.) 

 From May to July is the nesting time for this species at Scotch Lake, 

 N.B. The nests are placed in hollow fence poles or in old wood- 

 pecker nests. The nests are beautifully made of feathers and con- 

 tain from three to six eggs. When the nest is in a hollow pole the sit- 

 ting bird has a way of spreading itself so that only dark feathers show- 

 when a person looks in at the nest, so that sometimes a person can- 

 not tell if the bird be on the nest or not. (W. H. Moore.) A nest 



