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At the latter locality lie found them breeding in crevices and clefts 

 in the limestone rocks in the little islets that line the shore in this 

 area. They nested at times in company with the martin. Many of 

 their eggs were destroyed by grackles. Wetmore in 1927 observed 

 a few cliff swallows flying over the houses of Santo Domingo City 

 on May 3, and on Samana Bay recorded them May 8 about the rocky 

 islands opposite the mouth of the Arroyo Barrancota. On May 11 

 he observed them in numbers along the limestone cliffs, islets, and 

 headlands from San Lorenzo west along the southern coast of Samana 

 Bay. On May 16, 30, and 31, and June 1 they were seen about 

 La Vega. Danforth in 1927 found them nesting on a ledge over- 

 hanging the sea at Santo Domingo City, and reports that they had 

 young the first week in July. Ciferri collected specimens at Sabana 

 San Thome, near San Juan, July 25, 1929. 



Following are observations that pertain to Haiti. Vieillot, who 

 termed this species hirondelle fauve and gave it the scientific name 

 of fulva, says that he observed it once in the middle of May and 

 collected one when a number flew into the open windows of a house 

 and when driven out returned immediately. Cory in 1881 collected 

 one at Gonai'ves on February 10, and says that he observed several 

 flocks flying about houses but these disappeared the following day 

 and none were found subsequently. Bartsch in 1917 recorded them 

 about Jeremie from April 10 to 16, collecting one April 14, at Trou 

 des Roseaux April 13 and 14, and in the general vicinity of Port-au- 

 Prince April 21, 22, and 24. Abbott secured a series of skins at 

 Cap-Haitien April 25 and 27, and one at Baie des Moustiques May 

 7, 1917. On July 7 he found them nesting on Tortue Island. Beebe 

 records them on one occasion about the Gendarmerie station at 

 Furcy which seems to be the highest altitude at which the species 

 has been reported. The hills in that vicinity are generally bare 

 and open so that there these swallows might easily come up from 

 lower elevations. In 1927 Wetmore saw a few cliff swallows at 

 Fonds-des-Negres March 31, and found them common April 1 over 

 the marshy meadows along the north side of the fitang Miragoane. 

 At the Bassin Zime, in the hills beyond Hinche, on April 24 he found 

 a considerable colony nesting in a cave back among the shadows near 

 the entrance. An adult male was taken. At Cap-Haitien on April 

 26 a flock of these swallows in much excitement busily gathered mud 

 for their nests at the border of the sea, carrying it to the girders 

 supporting a newly installed iron bridge across a tidal stream, a 

 rapid accommodation to a change in their environment. Bond found 

 them breeding in Christophe's Citadelle and also near Fort Liberte. 

 He found them common on Tortue and Gonave. Poole and Perrygo 



