THE BANK SWALLOW. __ ia 
Authorities.—Clivicola riparia, Dawson, Auk, Vol. XIV. April, 1897, p. 179. 
see es DZ ibs D2) kk. BY B( EL): 
Specimens.—Prov. C. 
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BANK SWALLOW. 
THOSE who know, conceive a regard for this plain-colored bird which 
is quite out of. keeping with its humble garb and its confessedly prosy ways. 
The fact is, we have no other bird so nearly cosmopolitan, and we of the 
West, who are being eternally reminded of our newness, and who are, indeed. 
upon the alert for some new shade of color upon the feather of a bird for each 
added degree of longitude, take comfort in the fact that here at least is an un- 
