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at Alvord, in Owens Valley, where they were breeding in the banks along the sloughs, 

 June 26-28." 



The species does not appear in Mr. Frank Chapman's list, and no specimen Avas 

 obtained by Mr. J. K. Lord in British Columbia ; but Mr. John Fannin states that 

 it is a summer resident east of the Cascades, but is rare to the west of that ransre. 

 It is recorded by Mr. Lawrence from Gray's Harbour, in Washington County, and in 

 California it is found in suitable places. 



Mr. Townsend did not find it in any of the localities in Northern California visited by 

 him, but in Ventura County, according to Mr. Evermann, it is a summer resident, 

 locally abundant. 



Returning to the northern habitat of the Sand-Martin, Mr. Bishop saj^s that it was 

 tolerably common on the Magdalen Islands, breeding on Grindstone. According to 

 Mr. Dwight it is a summer resident on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia ; and 

 Messrs. Brittain and Cox record it from the Ptestigouche Valley, in New Brunswick ; 

 they also saw a small colony at the mouth of the Kedgwick Biver. In New England 

 Mr. Maynard says that it is the last of the Swallows to appear, arriving about the 

 middle of May. Mr. Stearns, in his work on 'New England Bird Life,' observes: — 

 " These very plainly coloured Swallows, the least in size of all our species, are abundant 

 summer residents, wherever the requirements of their breeding instinct are fulfilled. 

 Unlike all the rest, the Bank-Swallows have never yielded to modernizing influences, 

 and still persist in excavating holes for themselves in the ground, as they have always 

 done." In Berkshii-e County, Massachusetts, Mr. Faxon says it is plentiful, breeding in 

 the banks of the Housatonic river. Mr. W. Brewster also states that the Sand-]\Iartin 

 is a common bird near Winchenden, in Massachusetts, and breeds there ; and Messrs. 

 Faxon and Allen remark that it is common in the White Mountain region, in New- 

 Hampshire, from June to August. It also breeds very frequently in the district of 

 Columbia, according to Mr. Bichmond. 



Mr. Butcher, in his paper on the birds of Little Gull Island, New York, observes : — 

 "Although no birds of this species were seen, Mr. C. B. Field said that they had bred 

 abundantly on Great Gull Island earlier in the season, a statement tiiat was well 

 verified Ijy the large number of holes in the sand-banks that overhxjked tlic sliores of 

 the island. Mr. Field also said that about as soon the Swallows had dug out their 

 homes, some folks, who should have been better employed, came over I'rom Cuniu'cluiit 

 and amused themselves by digging out the holes that the Swallows had made, iluis 

 compelling the birds to excavate new ones." 



In the Hcnshaw collection arc specimens from llu- Inllowing loralilics :— Sin- Sing, 

 N.Y., August (yi. K. Fisher); Oysler Bay, Long Island, .Inlv 1^1 [^llouserrhll ] \ New 

 Haven, Connecticut, May 20 {('. Jl. Mcrr'nim); W'asliiuglnn, D.C .May to August ^Jl. 

 W. Eenshmo); Mount Carmel, Illinois, .luly 27 (A'. ". .Srls,,,!); Whiting, Indiana. 

 July Ji (JZ. IF. Ileiishaw) ; and Cohhain, Indiana, ^lay 11 [U. II'. JhiLshair). 



In Carroll County, Indiana, Mr. I'^vermaun stales thatit is an abundant summer 

 resident. Messrs. W. A. and J. A. ,)cllVies noticed the liinl alumdanlly in ,May in North 

 CaroHna. In Fulton County, Kentucky, according to ]\Lr. I'indar, it is a common 



