TACUYCINETA TUzVLASSINA. 443 



brouglit down the rest would exhibit great concern, circhng about the 

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

 fluttering on the ground. 



List of sj^cciinms. 



473, ? rtJ.; Carson City, Nevada, March 30, ]S(JS. 0—13— 4^— 4J. Bill, dcop black; 

 iulcrior of mouth, Jfcshy tvhitc; tarsi aud toes, dark sepia, the latter pinkish beneath. 



474, (? ad.; Carson City, Nevada, March 30, 1808. 5|— 13— 4J— 4^'^. Interior of 

 vtuulli, pah' yclloir. 



47.J, ? ad.; Carson City, Nevada, March 30, 18GS. C— 12g— 4g— 3|a. Interior of 

 vwuth, Jhnhy white, 



748, eggs; Truckee Bottoms, May 19, 18C8. Nestof straw and feathers, in dcseited 

 woodpecker's hole, in willow tree. 



708, 769, eggs (3—4) ; Truckee Bottoms, May lid, ISCS. Nests with same location, 

 etc., as preceding. 



1038, (? ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 24, 1800. 0-13. Bill, black ; iris, brown ; 

 feet, dark purplish-brown. 



1410, eggs (3); Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, July 10, 1SC9. Eggs 

 in knot-hole in aspeu-tree. Nest of feathers. 



1484, i juv.; Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, July 30, 1869. HJ— 12. 

 Bill, black; rictus and interior of mouth, yellow; iris, brown ; feet, dark livid sepia. 



1485, <? jur.; Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, July 30, 1809. 5g— IJf. 

 Feet, light pinh: 



Tachycineta thalassina. 



Vtolct-giccii Swallow. 



nirundo thalassina, SwAiNSON, Philos. Mag., I, 1827, 30.5.- Baird, Birds N. Am., 

 1858, 311; Catal., 1859, No. 228; Eeview, 1805, 299.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 

 107.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. Birds, I, 1874, 347, pi. xvi, fig. 11. 



Tachycineta thalassina, Cabanis, Mus. Hein., 1850, 48.— CouES, Key, 1872, 113; 

 Check List, 1873, No. 113; Birds N.W., 1874, 80.— Hen.shaw, 1875, 217. 



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

 Pyramid Lake, during the month of May. They Avere very abundant, and 

 frequented chiefly the cliffs of calcareous tufa, where they were observed 

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

 again among the limestone walls of the eastern canons of the Iiuliy 

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

 associates being the Wliitc-throated Swift {Pani/pfila sa.rafilis), and Cliff 

 Swallow {rvtrueJtdhJon iHiiifron.s). Their nests were in almost every casu 



