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second brood and went south, September goth, 1901; the young 
died in the nest. (W. H. Moore.) 1 was told by missionaries 
that the swallows nested in the deserted Eskimo igloos, building 
their mud nests against the sides near the roof. On July, Ist, 1899, 
I found a barn swallow’s nest built on a beam in the house of a 
small river steamer, stranded at the side of Mission Inlet. The 
nest was constructed as usual of a mixture of mud and grasses 
with a lining of finer grass and a large quantity of white ptarmigan 
feathers almost burying the eggs. (Gvimnell.) Nests oblong 
and attached to the walls or to the rafters of barns and other 
buildings; or round and placed on the beams. They are made 
of mud arranged in small pellets formed and mixed with grassand 
have a lining of feathers and hair. Four to six eggs in the set at 
Ottawa and at Lake Nominingue, 100 miles north of it, in June 
and July. (Garneai.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Five; one taken at Ottawa in May, 1888, by Prof. Macoun; two 
taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains, in May, 1891, and two at Agas- 
siz, B.C., in May, 1889, by Mr. Spreadborough. 
Two sets of four and five eggs, respectively taken at Wolfville, 
N.S.; June 12th and 14th, 1902, by Mr. H. Tufts. 
613a. Alaskan Barn Swallow. 
Firundo erythrogaster unalaschkensis (GMEL.) PALMER. 1899. 
A few barn swallows were flying over the marshes of Chilcat 
Inlet, June Ist, 1899; I heard they were common at White Pass 
City, June 9th, and we saw two about the buildings at White Pass 
summit, June 1oth; at Log Cabin they were common, June 14-20th; 
a few were noticed at Lake Bennett, June 1g-2Ist. I refer all 
seen to this sub-species, because all had remarkably long tails. 
(Bishop.) Walking along the hills near the village of St. George 
on May 28th, 1890, with Mr. Ed. Lavender, we saw a swallow 
skimming along the edge of the cliff, catching the flies which the 
warm sun had enticed from the crevices of the rocks. Shortly 
afterwards it flew just over my head while among the houses of 
the village. Drs. Noyes and Hereford, who have each spent more 
than ten years on the island, assured me that a swallow was un- 
known there, but later in the evening IJ had the opportunity of 
showing them the bird on another part of the cliff ; it remained 
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