CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 555 
unable to ascertain that this bird ever excavates its own nesting 
holes. Certainly it often uses old kingfisher holes and sometimes 
a cavity in a brick wall. The holes are not less than three inches 
in the smallest diameter, and the nests have been found at all 
depths. Sometimes they are visible from the outside and at 
others 40 inches from the outside. The nests are bulky and 
made of straws, weed-stems, roots and small sticks, and are 
usually lined with green willow leaves, but have not so far been 
found with a feather lining as is usually the case with the bank 
swallow. The eggs are larger than those of that species, and are 
in sets of 6 or 7, while the bank swallow lays 4 or 5 and some- 
times 6. (W. E. Saunders.) 
A specimen of this bird, taken near Winnipeg by Mr. Hine, is 
in the Manitoba museum. (Zhompson-Seton.’ Found breeding 
at Canmore within the Rocky Mountains in June, 1891; shot at 
Revelstoke, B.C., May 6th, 1890; breeding in the cut banks of the 
Columbia in many places; large numbers were nesting at Robson 
in July, 1890; breeding in numbers in a bank on Trail Creek, B.C., 
in June, 1902; seen for only a few days at Penticton in 1903; 
common at Kamloops and Spence’s Bridge; also breeding in a 
steep bank near Vancouver, B.C., and at Port Moody, Burrard 
Inlet, and at Port Heney, on the Fraser River; common at Chil- 
liwack, in the spring of 1901; a common summer resident on Van- 
couver Island, breeding at Goldstream and Shawanagin Lake; 
also in holes by the sea shore at Comox and Sooke. (Spread- 
borough.) Much more plentiful east than west of the Coast Range. 
(Lord.) Common throughout the province; breeds. (.S¢veator.) 
Common all over the province; breeds in the banks at Beacon 
Hill, Victoria. (/annin.) Common summer resident at Chilli- 
wack. (Bvooks.) Not common in British Columbia, but of the 
same distribution as the barn swallow. (hoads.) Common at 
Revelstoke, Salmon Arm and Agassiz and breeding in the Sea 
Bird Bluffs near Vancouver, B.C., in May, 1897. (£. F. G. White.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Eight; three taken at Revelstoke, B.C., in May, 1890; one at 
Robson, on the Columbia River, June 26th, 1890; two at Trail, 
B.C. in’ May, 1902; twovat' Port Heney, Fraser River, B/G; Apel, 
1889, all by Mr. Spreadborough. 
