584 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
CCXLIV. STELGIDOPTERYX Bairp. 1858. 
617. Rough-Winged Swallow. 
Stelgidopteryx serripennis (AUD.) BAIRD. 1858. 
Probably a rare summer resident at Toronto, Ont. A male 
was taken, May 16th, 1900, and on June 12th, 1906, I found 
a pair building in an old kingfisher’s tunnel and took the 
’ female. (J. H. Fleming.) Common along the streams and 
rivers of Middlesex county, Ont. Data are lacking for other 
points in the west of the province. I have been unable to 
ascertain that this bird ever excavates its own nesting holes. 
Certainly it often uses old kingfisher holes and sometimes a cavity 
in a brick wall. The holes are not less than three inches in the 
smallest diameter, and the nests have been found at all depths. 
Sometimes they are visible from the outside and at others 40 inches 
from the outside. The nests are bulky and made of straws, weed- 
stems, roots and small sticks, and are usually lined with green 
willow leaves, but have not so far been found with a feather lining 
as is usually the case with the bank swallow. The eggs are larger 
than those of that species, and are in sets of six or seven, while the 
bank swallow lays four or five and sometimessix. (W.E. Saunders.) 
A specimen of this bird, taken near Winnipeg by Mr. Hine, is 
in the Manitoba museum. (FE. 7. Seton.) Probably occurs at 
Aweme, Man, but passes for the last. (Criddle.) Found breeding 
at Canmore within the Rocky mountains in June, 1891; shot at 
Revelstoke, B.C., May 6th, 1890; breeding in the cut banks of the 
Columbia in many places; large numbers were nesting at Robson 
in July, 1890; breeding in numbers in a bank on Trail creek, B.C., 
in June, 1902; seen for only a few days at Penticton in 1903; ob- 
served a number near Fernie, B.C. in 1904 and between Midway and 
Osoyoos lake in 1905; common at Kamloops and Spence Bridge; 
also breeding in a steep bank near Vancouver, B.C., and at Port 
Moody, Burrard inlet, and at Port Heney, on the Fraser river; 
common at Chilliwack, in the spring of 1901; a common summer 
resident on Vancouver island, breeding at Goldstream and Shaw- 
nagin lake; also in holes by the sea shore at Comox and Sooke. 
(Spreadborough.) Much more plentiful east than west of the Coast 
range. (Lord.) Common throughout the province; breeds. 
