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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



Guadulupe Island, this Swift was very abundant; the ragged, 

 precipitous slides of the island, composed of lava and perforated 

 with thousands of holes and crevices, furnish an abundance of nest- 

 ing sites, and it is quite probable that this species is resident there 

 throughout the year. At the time of my visit, in May, I found 

 White-throated Swifts everywhere, from the top of the island at 

 4000 feet elevation, to the beach, and birds were constantly seen to 

 enter holes in the crags ; but in each case the nest was as inacces- 

 sible as it is possible for a nest to be. On May 18th a Swift was 

 seen to enter a hole in the face of a bluff, within eight feet of it's 

 base ; even this proved to be as safe as the rest, as the nest was 

 found to be out of sight and several feet back, in a narrow crack 

 in the lava. " 



Photo by Clinton A. Smith. 



ORCHARD ORIOLE. 



