BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 165 
with excepting at San José del Cabo, where a few, evidently migrating, were seen 
passing southward in late August and early September. 
Mr. Bryant records the Western Martin from several places in the northern 
portions of Lower California, and says that it has been found nesting by Mr. 
Belding in dead pines at Hansen’s. Mr. Anthony states that in the neighbor- 
hood of San Fernando, it is “ not uncommon at the mission and an occasional 
pair was seen in other localities, nesting in Woodpecker holes in the giant cac- 
tus,” ! while on San Pedro Martir it is ‘“‘ very common; nesting in colonies from 
Valladares, 2,500 feet altitude, throughout the pines.”? Mr. Frazar’s experi- 
ence indicates, of course, that the bird also breeds in the Cape Region, but he 
obtained no direct proof of this. 
The Western Martin occurs in summer throughout most of California, and 
probably still further northward. Its winter haunts are not definitely known. 
Petrochelidon lunifrons (Sar). 
CLIFF SWALLOW. 
Petrochelidon lunifrons BetpinG, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 547 (San José del 
Cabo). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 306 (San José del 
Cabo). 
Two Cliff Swallows taken by Mr. Frazar, both young birds with white-spotted 
throats, are very much paler than any of my eastern examples in corresponding 
plumage. In both, the rump is dull ochraceous buff, the forehead, nuchal collar, 
breast, and sides, pale drab gray with a slight tinge of rufous. The only decided 
rufous is on the throat and sides of the head. These specimens are almost per- 
fectly matched by a bird (No. 30,556) in the United States National Museum, 
labeled as taken ‘at sea off the west coast of Central America, Oct. 20, 
1863.” Itis not improbable that all three belong to a form as yet undescribed, 
or possibly they may be the young of some of the known Mexican and Central 
American species of which I have seen only the adults. 
Mr. Belding mentions seeing the Cliff Swallow on April 29, 1882, at San 
José del Cabo, where Mr. Frazar found it very numerous between September 
& and October 7, 1887. It occurred in large, straggling flocks which usually 
contained varying percentages of other species of Swallows, most of which were 
either migrating or collecting at this point preparatory to setting out across the 
sea. Neither of the observers just mentioned met with the Cliff Swallow at 
any other locality in the Cape Region. To the northward, however, it has 
been found at San Quintin Bay in May by Mr. Belding (fide Bryant) and at 
San Fernando ® and San Pedro Martir by Mr. Anthony. At the locality last 
named it was “ common in colonies from the coast to the top of the mountain; 
1 Auk, XII. 1895, 141. 2 Zoe, 1V. 1893, 243. 
3 Auk, XII. 1895, 141. 
