Todd: The Birds of the Isle of Pines. 259 



Riparia riparia (Linnaeus). Bank Swallow. 



<?) "Bank Swallow" Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Apr. ii, 1914 (I. of Pines, March 



4. 1914-) 



The Bank Swallow is a rare transient in the West Indies, and the only record we 

 have of its occurrence in the Isle of Pines is the one by Mr. Read above quoted, 

 which, however, does not appear to be based on an actual capture. Mr. Link says 

 that a swallow which he took to be this species was nesting in holes in low banks 

 along the Casas River in May, but no specimens were taken, and the identification 

 is open to question. The locality is certainly beyond the known southern breeding 

 range of the Bank Swallow, while the Rough-winged Swallow is not even known 

 from the West Indies, so that the identity of these particular birds is problematical, 

 and specimens are very desirable. 



113. Petrochelidon fulva fulva (Vieillot). Cuban Cliff Swallow. 



Petrochelidon fulva fulva Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, III, 1904, 53 

 (I. of Pines). — Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 209 (Nueva Gerona, 

 fide Palmer and Riley). 



"Cuban Cliff Swallow" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines). 

 — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 102, and XXVIII, 191 1, 7 (I. of Pines), 6 (Nuevas 

 River), 114 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 125 (Santa Barbara), 131 (I. of 

 Pines, summer; migr.). 



Petrochelidon fulva American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Check List 

 N. Am. Birds, ed. 3, 1910, 292 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). — Read, Oologist, 

 XXVIII, 1911, 12 (I. of Pines). — Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Apr. ir, 1914 

 (Nueva Gerona; descr. ; habits). 



Four specimens: Bibijagua and Nueva Gerona. 



The seasonal status of the present species appears to be the same 

 as that of the Cuban Martin, a summer resident only, of which the 

 winter habitat is still unknown. Mr. Read records its arrival in 1914 

 on March 4, and Gundlach says that in Cuba it comes at the end 

 of February or early in March. Messrs. Palmer and Riley found it 

 common in the lowlands in the vicinity of Nueva Gerona in July, 

 at which time the young had begun to collect in flocks on the telegraph 

 wires. Mr. Link found it common here also in May and June, and 

 was fortunate in discovering its nesting-grounds in the Casas and 

 Caballos Mountains. As early as April 6, in the latter locality, the 

 birds were observed going in and out of holes in the cliffs near the tops 

 of the mountains, where they evidently had eggs or young. These 

 nesting-places were quite inaccessible by ordinary means, but a little 

 later, in the Casas Mountains, some pairs were found with nests only 

 about twenty feet up the face of an exposed cliff. Mr. Read speaks 

 of having seen the birds gathering nesting-material in the shape of 

 little pellets of clay from the edges of water-holes in Nueva Gerona. 



