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together, until early autumn, all but two of the flock then disappearing. 

 I have every reason to beheve them to be the same pair which remained 

 during the previous winter, as they displayed the same traits and acted in 

 precisely the same manner. Together with several Song Sparrows, they 

 spent most of the day in a willow copse, over a damp place, at the near 

 corner of the orchard, always repairing, however, to the ivy-covered house 

 to roost. — Theo. E. W. Reynolds, Kent, Wash. 



The Bahama Swallow in Cuba.— While Governor General of the 

 Philippine Islands W. Cameron Forbes took much interest in the bird 

 fauna of the group and he made for the Museum of his Alma Mater — The 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard University — large and very 

 valuable collections of Philippine birds, and found, he says more real rest 

 and relaxation, during his short vacations, in bird collecting than in any 

 other pursuit. 



Since his retirement from the Governorship of the Philippines, Mr. 

 Forbes has kept up his active interest in bird collecting and last winter 

 during a hurried trip, which included a stop of a day or two each, in Cuba 

 and Jamaica and a few days in Guatemala secured for us no less than one 

 hundred and twenty skins. 



In Cuba Mr. Forbes collected only at Nipe Bay in the northeastern end 

 of the island. There he secured on March 7 and 8, 1914, skins of twenty 

 species of birds, most important of which are two specimens of the Bahama 

 Swallow, Callichelidon cyaneoviridis (BrA'ant) which I believe has not 

 been recorded before from Cuba. The skins both taken March 8, 1914, are 

 Nos. 65504 and 65505 M. C. Z. and are d" and 9 • Mr. Forbes says that 

 this swaUow was exceedingly abundant and generallj^ distributed at Nipe 

 Bay, feeding in the manner of its kind or resting on the telegraph wires. 



Bryant, Cory and others who have written on the birds of the Bahamas, 

 mention the swallow as present in those islands in the winter months, 

 but as less abundant there than in spring and summer. It must breed 

 rather late as Bryant states that in specimens killed so late as April 28 the 

 genital organs showed no signs of the near approach of the breeding season. 



Whether the Bahama swallow is resident in northeastern Cuba or only 

 occurs there as an abundant winter visitor we cannot sny. Mr. Forbes' 

 discovery deprives the species of the distinction of being the only genus of 

 birds peculiar to the Bahamas. — Outram Bangs, Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



The Coahuila Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon f-idva pallida) in Texas. — 

 My collector, who has been in Kerr County, Texas, since the first of last 

 March, sent me among other bird-skins, a fine series of CUff Swallows, 

 which at first I thought were Petrochelidon lunifrons tachina Oberholser. 

 On examining them carefully however, I saw they were different, for they 

 were too large and much paler than this subspecies. I sent them to Mr. 

 Outram Bangs, who identified them as Petrochelidon fulva pallida Nelson; 



