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liedpoll. Acaiitliis linavia liiiaria (Linn.)- 



One seen Maicli 7 and again :Marcli 12, 1909, at Ft. Wayne, lud., by 

 Mr. Harry A. Dinins and Mr. Chas. A. 8tockbridge. Two reported at 

 Roanoke, Ind.. Ity Mr. Harry A. Dinins December 10. 1911. 



Mr. Norman A. Wood reported 500 seen at Ann Arbor, Micb.. December 

 19, 1908; again noted December 2S, and last seen Marcb 3, 1909. Tbey 

 are noted as connnou some years ; other years absent. 



Prof. E. L. Moseley reports o]ic at Sandusky. Oliio. April 2(i and agair^ 

 May 13, 1911. 

 A'ttre StcaVoii?: Cliff l^iraHoir. Petnx-helidon lunifmns lunifrons (Say). 



About fifty of these swallows were seen by Mr. Harry A. Dinins and 

 Mr. Charles A. Stockbridge at I-'t. Wayne, Ind., April 30, 1909. They 

 were again mitcd May 1. Ri-pdrted as tolerably ((iinnion at that station 

 but not given as breeding. liicknell, Ind., September 2. 191(1. Breeds; 

 getting rare, nesting at Uicknell. Knox County, in the summer of 1911, is 

 a n-imrt oi Mr. K. .1. ( "h;uisler. Lyons. Cieene ('(lunty, seen September 

 5; next Si'i)teuiber (i ; last ^een Se]>tenil)er 17. Rare; does not breed. 

 (I'rof. W. I'.. \'an Gorder.) The same writer also states, when a boy in 

 .Vnhh' ('<nmty. thei'e was a l)ai-n (me-lialf mile east of Avilla. which had 

 (ver K.n nests of the ("liff Swallows. A half ndle north of tiiat town was 

 auotjier barn with sduie 49 or .",() nests. These birds all disappeared more 

 tbaii twcnly-Hve years ago. J,a>t August (19101 in Avilla. lie fonnd a 

 little colony of Cliff Swallows and ten nests close in a row along the 

 eave of a liarn. Six of these- birds were noted l>y Mr. Harry .\. I>iiiins at 

 Roanoke, Ind.. .\ugust 2:!. 1911. where he reports them as common and 

 breeding. 



Wawaka. 1911. In this ncighhorhodd there are three or four small 

 coloiues of Eave or ("liff Swallows. 'About one mile from my home there 

 is a small barn wliidi lias under its eaves fifty-three nests of this 

 swallow." ( >. A. Renahan. 



I'rof. I >. W. Dennis tells mt» of two localities in Wayne County where a 

 few paii's still nest. 



Where aie the great numbers that fornii'riy built their <iirioiis b )ttle- 

 sliaiit'd nests of mud under the eaves of the farmers' barns? 

 W'lilli -irhiii(<l Cros^fhill. I.oxia leucoi>tera ((hiiel.). 



A niunbcr rejiorted near lirookville, Ind.. in the winter of 19(i9 and 

 191U. nndei' date of February 14, 1910, by Mr. Joseith F. Ilonecker. 

 Wool] Duck. Aix sponsa (Linn.) 



