CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 579 
of grass and feathers built in a deserted woodpecker’s nest; it may 
be in any hole in tree or fence post around Ottawa where they breed 
in numbers. The four or five eggs are laid in May and June. (Gar- 
neau.) 
615. Northern Violet-green Swallow. 
Iridoprocne thalassina lepida (MEARNS) A.O.U. Comm. 1902. 
Observed only on one occasion ,June 26th, 1874, on the upper 
Missouri, near Quaking Ash river. (Cowes.) A common species at 
Banff, Rocky mountains, breeding in cliffs at Canmore, June, 1891; 
a large colony was found along the Wait-a-bit which flows into the 
Columbia at Donald, B.C.; not seen at Revelstoke, but shot in the 
Eagle pass a little to the west; quite common at Deer Park and 
Robson in the Columbia valley, breeding in large numbers in the 
cliffs; observed a few at Henry House, Athabaska pass in July, 
1898; first seen,* April 9th, 1903, common by the 17th at Penticton, 
south of Lake Okanagan; a number seen near Fernie, B.C., in 1904 
and common, from Midway to Osoyoos lake in 1906; abundant 
around the cascade at Spence Bridge and at Yale, B.C., May, 1889; 
a few were observed at Chilliwack, B.C., in the spring of 1901, and 
a pair found nesting there in 1906; first seen near Victoria, Van- 
couver island, April 8th, 1893; by May 1oth they were very abun- 
dant; later in the season they were found breeding at Sooke, Nanaimo 
and Comox. (Spreadborough.) Common in British Columbia. (Lord.) 
Found only at Ashcroft in 1889; breeds. (Streator.) An abundant 
summer resident throughout the province. (Fannin.) Common; 
may breed in the vicinity of Chilliwack. (Brooks.) Uniformly distri- 
buted throughout British Columbia up to 7,000 feet. (Rhoads.) 
Common at Donald, Columbia river; very common at the- mouth 
of Nicola river, B.C.; and in Stanley park, Vancouver, B.C. (E. 
F. G. White.) 
We saw a single male among flocks of bank swallows flying over 
Fifty-mile river above Miles cafion, July 1ith, 1899, and another 
between White Horse rapids and Lake Lebarge. In July, I took 
a male from several that we saw near Hootalinqua river and at the 
Semenow hills, July 20th, Osgood secured a female, finding her nest 
with four young in a crevice in the cliff; after this we saw colonies 
of from six to ten individuals and one near White river that must 
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