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wich, Vt., when two swallows, perched on a dead limb over the water, 

 attracted my notice. A near view at once made their identification as 

 Rough-winged Swallows certain. On a visit to the same place the fol- 

 lowing day, I found the swallows still about, and in hopes of obtaining a 

 breeding record I began to search for a nest. 



On May 12 I was rewarded by seeing the pair of swallows flying back 

 and forth to a clay bank beside the road. There, about twenty feet up, 

 was a hole into which the birds were carrying grass and leaves for lining 

 material. The tunnel, measuring 20 inches in length, slanted slightly 

 upward, and contained a nest at the further end. The hole was notice- 

 ably larger in diameter than those of a colony of Bank Swallows in a bank 

 near by. 



My observation of their nesting was interrupted more or less by other 

 work and so is not as complete as I wish. During the last two weeks of 

 May the swallows were busy incubating, both taking turns at sitting on 

 the eggs. In early June the young were hatched and both birds took care 

 of the young. Unfortunately I had to leave before the young birds were 

 able to fly. 



April 29, 1906, I found the pair of Rough-winged Swallows again flying 

 back and forth over the river. They returned to the old nest, which they 

 cleaned out and relined, and again used to rear their young. Their return 

 to the old nest leads me to feel quite sure that they have used the nest for 

 a number of years, and I shall look for them again next spring. 



That a pair of Rough-winged Swallows have chosen this spot to breed 

 in, seems of unusual interest to me, because in a heavy hemlock woods 

 not more than one hundred yards distant. Winter Wrens, Red-breasted 

 Nuthatches, and a pair of Northern Pileated Woodpeckers breed. — 

 Francis G. Blake, Hanover, N. H. 



A New Hampshire Record for Stelgidopteryx serripennis. — The pair 

 of Rough-winged Swallows mentioned above have often been observed 

 to fly across the Connecticut river into New Hampshire territory at Han- 

 over. According to Mr. G. M. Allen's 'Birds of New Hampshire,' this 

 is the first record of Rough-winged Swallows in the State. — Francis G. 

 Blake, Hanover, N. H. 



The Philadelphia Vireo (Vireo philadelphicus) in Georgia. — An adult 

 male of this vireo was taken by Mr. George P. Butler on September 17, 

 1890, in Richmond County, Georgia. This specimen is now in my collec- 

 tion. 



The Philadelphia Vireo is a rara avis in the South Atlantic States and 

 I have never met with-it. As far as I am aware there are no records for 

 North and South Carolina, or Florida. — Arthur T. Wayne, Mount 

 Pleasant, S. C. 



