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bruuj^lit down the rest would exhibit great concern, circling about the 

 victim, and uttering a plaintive twitter, as their suffering companion lay 

 Uuttcring on the ground. 



List of specimens. 



473, ? ad.; Carson City, Nevntln, March 30, l.SlW. C— 13— J J— 4i. IJill, dcop blacl; ; 

 interior of mouth, Jiesliy white; tarsi and toes, dark sepia, tin-, latter pinldsh l)eneatii. 



474, S iuh; Carson City, Nevada, March 30, 1808. oj — 13 — 4} — 4,'^. Interior of 

 mouth, juilc yellow. 



475, ? ad.; Carson City, Nevada, March 30, 1SG8. G— 12g— 4g— 3J^. Interior of 

 mouth, JliHhy white. 



74S, e^'^s; TrncUee Bottoms, May 19^1868. Nestof straw and feathers, iu dcseited 

 woodpecker's hole, in willow tree. 



7GS, 7G9, eggs (3 — 4) ; Truckee Bottoms, May 29, 18G8. Nests with same location, 

 etc., as preceding. 



1038, S (1(1; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 24, 1809. G— 13. Bill, black ; iris, brown ; 

 feet, dark purplish brown. 



1 lU;, eggs (3); Tarley's Tark, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, July 10, 18C9. Eggs 

 in knot-liolc in as[>en-tree. Nest of feathers. 



1484, ijiiv.; Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, Jnl.V 30, 1SG9. .'if— 12. 

 Bill, black; rictus and interior of month, yellow; iris, lirown ; fe(>t, dark livid sepia. 



148,"), i jar.; Parley's Park, ^V'ahsatch Mountains, Utah, July 30, 1809. 5^ — llj. 

 Feet, U(jhtj)ink. 



TaCHYCINETA THALASSINxi. 

 Violfl-gi'fcn Swallow. 



Ilirundo thdassina, SWAINSON, Philos. IMag., I, 1827, 3G5. — BAinn, Birds N. Am., 

 18.JS, 311; Catal., 1859, No. 228; Kevicw, 18G5, 299.— Cooi'Kn, Orn. Cal., 

 107.— B. B. & II., Uist. N. Am. Birds, I, 1874, 347, pi. XVI, lig. 11. 



Tachycincta thalassina, Cabanis, Mus. Hein., 1850, 48.— CouE8, Key, 1872, 113; 

 Check List, 1873, No. 113; Birds N.W., 1874, 80.- IJenshaw, 1875, 217. 



The beautiful Violet-green Swallow was first seen on the main island in 

 Pyramid Lake, during the month of JIay. They were very abundant, and 

 ficciuented chiefly tlic cliffs of calcareous tufa, Avhere they were oljscrvctl 

 to entur the fissures of the rock to their nests within. In July we saw it 

 aixain amonir the limestone walls of the eastern cafions of the liul>v 

 Mountains, where it also nested in the crevices on the face of the cliffs, its 

 associates being the White-throated Swift {Paiif/ptila saxatiUs), and Cliff 

 Swallow {Pcliochclklou liiiiifivns). Their nests wtiL- iu almost every caso 



