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/i'rdjioll. Acinilliis liiiarin liii:iri,i (Liiui.). 



One seen .March 7 and a^'aiii .March 12. 1001), at Ft. Wayne. Ind.. by 

 Ml-. Harry A. Diuins and .Mr. Chas. A. Stockbridge. Two reported at 

 Koanoke, Ind., by Mr. Harry .V. IMnins December 10. 1911. 



^Ir. Ndrnian A. Wood reported ")()() seen at Ann Arl)or. Mich.. I)ecenil>er 

 II). lOOS; again noted December 2S, and last seen March :}, UHiO. They 

 are noted as connnon some years; other years absent. 



Pi'of. E. L. ;\Ios(>le.v reports one at Sandnsky, Oliio. .Vpril 2c> .-md agair 

 May 13, 1911. 

 I-Javc SiraUoic: ('Jiff Sirallon-. Petriw-lielidon lunitrons Innifrons (.*>ay). 



.Vbiiut tiriy ol tliese swallows were seen by Mr. Harry .V. Dinins and 

 Mr. Charles A. .Stockbridge at Ft. Wayne, Ind., April 3<». 19Ui). They 

 were again noted May 1. Rejiorted as tolerably connnon at that station 

 lint not liiven as breeding. I'.icknell. Ind., September 2. 191(1. I'reeds ; 

 getting r.ire. nesting at P.icknell. Knox County, in the summer of 1911, is 

 a rejiort ol .Mr. K. J. Chansler. Lyons. Gieene County, seen September 

 5; next September (i; last seen September 17. Rare; does not breed. 

 (I'rot. '\\'. 1'. Van Gorder.) The same writer also states, when a boy in 

 .\oble County, there was a barn one-half mile east of Avilla. which had 

 ( ver l(i(t nests of the Cliff Swallows. .V half udle north of tliat town was 

 another barn with some 4(» or .'(i nests. These birds all disajiiieared more 

 than twenly-Hve years ago. Fast .\ugust (1910) in Avilla. he found a 

 little coliiny of Cliff Swallows and ten nests close in a row along the 

 eave of a barn. Six of these birds were mited by .Mr. Harry .\. l>iiiin< .it 

 lioanoke, Ind.. August 2.'!. 1911. where he reports them as connnon and 

 breeding. 



^^'awaka. 1911. In this neighborhood there are three or four small 

 cohmies of I'^ave or ('lilf Swallows. ".Vbont one mile from my home there 

 is ;i small barn which has under its eaves lifty-three nests of this 

 sw.illow." ( ). .\. Kenahan. 



\'v(il'. I >. AV. I»ennis tells me of tW(» localities in Wayne County whert- a 

 few pairs still nesl. 



Where .lie the gre.at nnnibers that formerly built their curious b ittle- 

 shape(l nests of nnid under the e.aves of the farmers' barusV 

 W'liih -itiin/<(l ('rn.sshill. i.oxi.-i lenceplera ((iniel.l. 



A iMiniber reported near F.ronkville. Ind.. in the winter of 19(i9 and 

 191(1. nnder dale of Febi-nar\ II, I'.Ho. by .Mr. .lose|ih F. IIone<l<er. 

 Woiiil Duel,. .\i.\ sponsa (I.inii.) 



