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with the female parent. The nest had been found one week 
previously by watching the bird carrying feathers. It was lo- 
cated eight feet above the ground, resting among some drooping 
spruce boughs that overhung a pool of water near the beach. It 
is a bulky structure, 120 mm. high by 160 mm. across, the walls 
being very thick. The inner cavity is 70 mm. across by 50 deep. 
The main part of the nest is a matted mass of dead twigs, leaves, 
moss, and weathered erasses, and the lining is of finely frayed- 
out grasses mixed with duck feathers. The eggs resemble closely 
a common type of song sparrow’s eggs. They are a pale nile 
blue of a very distinet tone, blotched, spotted, and scrawled 
mainly at the large ends with vandyke brown, underlaid more 
profusely and evenly over the whole surface with finer irregular 
shell-markings of vinaceous. They measure: 23.2 * 17, 22.8 x 
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A pair of fox sparrows were shot at 2000 feet altitude on a 
mountain side near Hasselborg Lake, and several were seen along 
Hasselbore River. At Hawk Inlet they were fairly common, 
August 1 to 9. 
On Baranof Island Stephens records it as rather common 
June 11 to 20 at Red Bluff Bay, particularly about midway up 
the mountain side. They were also found at Rodman Bay and 
Bear Bay, in August. 
On Chichagof Island, at Hooniah, Dixon reports the species 
as “‘‘very abundant up on the mountain near timber-line where 
full-fledged young and old birds building were seen on June 
25.’’ It was noted again at Port Frederick the last week in 
July; and at Idaho Inlet July 20 to 25. At Glacier Bay, June 
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27 to July 20, Stephens records it as ‘‘abundant on one of the 
And at Helm Bay the same collector 
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outer Beardslee Islands.’ 
took a bird-of-the-year September 15. 
Hirundo erythrogaster palmeri Grinnell. 
Western Barn Swallow. 
On Admiralty Island a few barn swallows were seen in June 
at Mole Harbor, about the three lakes inland from that place, 
and at Killisnoo. Stephens records them as rather common at 
