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Nicasio. Chas. A. Allen. March 15, 1884, first. 



Beaverton, Or. A. W. Anthony. Common summer 

 resident. March 26, first; bulk arrived April 5, 1884. 

 In 1885, first arrived March 13, five birds; common 

 March 25. 



Wilamette. 0. B. Johnson. Abundant; nesting in 

 knot-holes and crevices about buildings; decidedly the 

 most familiar of the three species of swallows. 



Coupeville, Island County, W. T. Lawrence Wessel. 

 April 2, 1885. 



Suckley, 1860. Abundant throughout the interior of 

 Oregon and Washington Territory. I have observed it 

 arrive at Puget Sound about the 10th of May. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. Common summer 

 resident. Burrard Inlet. First seen March 13; com- 

 mon March 29, 1885. 



Henshaw, 1879. Extremely abundant summer visit- 

 ant in certain portions of eastern California and western 

 Nevada, as for instance at Pryamid Lake. Thousands 

 resort to the niches and holes in the faces of the rocks 

 for nesting sites. In the mountains where it is also 

 abundant it selects for this purpose the deserted holes 

 of woodpeckers, giving preference to those in oaks. 



Bendire. Noticed on Bear Creek, Blue Mountains, 

 summer of 1876. 



Ridgway. The beautiful violet -green swallow was 

 first seen at Pyramid Lake in May. They were very 

 abundant and frequented chiefly the cliffs of calcareous 

 tufa, where they were observed to enter the fissures of 

 the rock to their nests within. In July we saw it again 

 among the limestone walls of the eastern canons of the 

 Ruby Mountains where it also nested in the crevices on 

 the face of the cliffs. 



L. B. My latest California!! record is Big Trees, 

 September 25, though Dr. Cooper saw a large flock at 



