258 ANIMALS AND BIRDS COLLECTED 



THEE SWALLOW (Iridoprocne bicolor). Two 

 specimens : a female, Crooked River, May 15 ; a 

 young male, Du Brochet Lake, August 6. Two 

 sets of eggs taken on Sandy Lake on the 

 Churchill River, June 11, nests in old woodpecker- 

 holes in dead poplars. 



Observed Crooked Lake, May 12 ; Pelican Lake, 

 Churchill River, June 4. Numerous in Knee 

 Lake neighbourhood on the Churchill River, 

 June 6. Observed on Sandy Lake on the Churchill 

 River, June 9, 10, 11. Numerous at Stanley 

 Mission on the Churchill River, June 23. Ob- 

 served one near south end of Reindeer Lake, 

 July 7 ; the first of this species encountered for 

 some time. One pair observed Fort Du Brochet, 

 July 17. 



BANK SWALLOW (Riparia riparia). A male 

 taken on Sandy Lake, Churchill River, June 9. 



Colony of this species nesting on sand-bank at 

 the river-edge. Many young flown from nests, 

 and in the air with their parents. The nesting- 

 holes were at both high and low elevation in a 

 steep sloping bank of some twenty feet. Opened 

 one cavity, from which a swallow flew out, and 

 found the nest at the end of a 2 ft. 6 in. tunnel, 

 containing three eggs all of which were addled. 

 Birds flew out of many holes, and therein were 

 probably nests of young or a second comple- 

 ment of eggs. 



BOHEMIAN WAXWING (Bombydlla garrula). 

 Two specimens from Cochrane River : a juvenile 

 male taken July 28, " iris dark not reddish 

 brown like adult " ; an adult female, July 30. 



Observed Cochrane River, July 18, 19, and 



