CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 573 
an old shack; it was also found on Spur creek and was very common 
along Milk river, St. Mary river, and Lee creek to the foothills of the’ 
Rocky mountains; two observed at the head of Lesser Slave lake in 
June, 1903; common from Edmonton to Yellowhead pass in June, 
1898; occasionally seen in the foothills from Calgary southward to 
Crow Nest pass in July and August, 1897; a common species at Banff, 
Rocky mountains, breeding in the barns and outhouses in the village 
in June, 1891; first seen at Midway, B.C., May goth, and observed 
breeding in several places along the Similkameen river; not seen in 
the Columbia valley except on the mountains on the west side of 
Pass creek, near Robson, B.C., June 26th, 1890; common at Kam- 
loops, Spence Bridge and Penticton, B.C.; specimens were taken at 
Westminster Junction, Agassiz and Hastings, Burrard inlet, B.C., 
in 1899; abundant at Chilliwack in the spring of 1901; a few seen at 
Huntingdon, on the International Boundary, in September; an 
abundant summer resident throughout Vancouver island. (Spread- 
borough.) In the Northwest Territories, where the habitations of 
men are few and far between, it inhabits caves, particularly in the 
limestone rocks, and it also frequents the outhouses of the trading 
posts. When Fort Franklin was erected on the shores of Great Bear 
lake, in the autumn of 1825, we found many nests in the ruins of a 
house that had been abandoned for more than ten years. At Fort 
Chipweyan, in lat. 59°, the barn swallows arrive regularly about 
May 15th, and we observed them in the same month at Fort Good 
Hope, on the Mackenzie river, in lat. 674°. (Richardson.) Several 
seen about tall cliffs on the north side of Great Slave lake. (E. T. 
Seton.) North to Fort Resolution, on Great Slave lake; rare. (Ross.) 
An abundant summer resident throughout British Columbia. (fFan- 
nin.) More plentiful east than west of the Coast range. (Lord.) Com- 
mon everywhere; breeds. (Stveator.) An abundant summer resident 
at Chilliwack, Fraser river valley, B.C. ‘(Brooks.) Uniformly abun- 
dant throughout British Columbia up to 5,000 feet. (Rhoads.) Im- 
mense flocks late in the fall at Lulu island, in the lower Fraser river, 
BI Crewe G. White: 
A few barn swallows were always found about the numerous de- 
serted Indian villages and their nests were frequently noticed on the 
big cedar beams which are the framework of the Haida houses on 
Queen Charlotte islands. (Osgood.) Three specimens taken at 
Seldovia, Alaska, July, 1903. (Anderson.) This bird is the most 
