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South Dakota— Vermillion, April 19. North Dakota— Grafton, 

 April 27. Arizona — Tucson, February 19. Colorado — Denver, 

 April 18. Wyoming — Laramie, May 1. Montana — Missoula, April 

 25. California — Santa Barbara, February 24. Oregon— Mercer, 

 April 7. Washington — Tacoma, April 3. British Columbia — Chil- 

 liwack, April 5. 



Fall migration. — Late dates of fall departure are: British Colum- 

 bia — Okanagan Landing, September 28. Washington — Pullman, 

 September 11. Oregon— Newport, September 6. California — San 

 Diego, November 9. Montana — Fortine, September 9. Wyoming — 

 Laramie, September 4. Arizona — Fort Verde, September 20. South 

 Dakota — Yankton, August 24. Nebraska — Red Cloud, September 11. 

 Kansas — Onaga, September 16. Oklahoma — Tulsa, October 5. Min- 

 nesota — Minneapolis, September 20. Wisconsin — New London, Sep- 

 tember 20. Iowa — Indianola, September 27. Ontario — Toronto, 

 September 13. Ohio — Oberlin, September 23. Indiana — Riclimond, 

 October 1. Missouri — St. Louis, October 11. Tennessee — Athens, 

 October 13. Arkansas — Hot Springs National Park, October 14. 

 Mississippi — Edwards, October o. Louisiana — New Orleans, Novem- 

 ber 5. Vermont — ^Wells River, August 4. Massachusetts — Ipswich, 

 September 5. Connecticut — Fairfield, September 2. New York — 

 Rhinebeck, September 9. New Jersey — Hackettstown, September 11. 

 Pennsylvania — McKeesport, September 4. District of Columbia — 

 Washington, September 11. Georgia — Savannah, October 15. Flor- 

 ida — Pensacola, October 11; Key West, October 24. 



Casual records. — One was seen at Eastend, Saskatchewan, on July 

 20, 1930. 



Egg dates. — California: 23 records, April 15 to July 9; 13 records, 

 May 10 to June 3, indicating the height of the season. 



Illinois : 9 records, May 17 to June 6. 



Pennsylvania : 14 records, May 3 to June 15 ; 8 records, May 21 

 to June 9. 



Washington : 6 records, June 11 to July 4. 



CHELIDONARIA URBICA URBICA (Linnaeus) 



EUROPEAN MARTIN 



HABITS 



Since the European martin has been taken as an accidental strag- 

 gler on the east coast of Greenland, we add it to our list of North 

 American birds. It, with its various subspecies, is found over much 

 of the Old World as a breeding bird or a migrant. 



Although its distribution in general is much the same as the 

 European swallow, Capt. A. W. Boyd (1935) says that '*the House 



