recognized on the 7th of August at Dunbar's Mill, when at least a hundred were in 

 sight. Three days afterwards it was seen flying over the meadows at Big Trees, and 

 thereafter nearly every day till August 27. They chose as a resting-place the top 

 branches of a tall dead pine near the hotel, out of shooting-range ; and often, when 

 flying, were so high as to be seen with difficulty ; occasionally, however, they mingled 

 with Barn-Swallows near the ground. 



Mr. Evermann states that the species is rather common in Ventura County during 

 the spring migration, and a few remain to breed. Mr. Belding often saw the species in 

 winter in the extreme south of Lower California. 



In Arizona Professor Elliott Cones found the Violet-and-Green Swallow nesting near 

 Eort Whijjple. Mr. Scott, in his paper on the birds observed by him in spring in 

 Southern Arizona, says that it was " not uncommon in small flocks at the very highest 

 altitude and in the heaviest pine-timber. They frequently alighted on the upper limbs 

 of dead trees, and doubtless breed here in the deserted Woodpecker holes." Later he 

 writes : — " In the Catalinas this is the commonest of the Swallows, but, curiously, at 

 the lower altitudes (4000 feet) in the spring it is rare or does not occur. In the spring 

 of 1885, I found it common in late April on the summit of the mountains in the pine- 

 woods, but though I had looked for it carefully all the preceding six weeks at the altitude 

 of my house I only saw a single individual, on March 14th. In the late summer and 

 fall, from August 15th till October 7th, it was common in the region near my house. 

 It probably breeds in the pines of the Catalinas in numbers." 



Dr. Mearns has recently published the following note : — " This exquisite bird is 

 highly characteristic of the wooded mountain regions of Arizona, where it breeds, not 

 only in the hollows of trees, but very frequently in cavities in cliffs. While for the 

 most part retiring to the higher land during the breeding-season, a good many pass the 

 summer and breed in the wooded canons in which there are streams, in the lower 

 country. None were found breeding in the immediate valley of the Verde, in the 

 vicinity of Fort Verde, but they were sure to be found after ascending, for a short 

 distance, any of the tributaiy streams that flow through caiions from the high plateau. 

 There they usually nest on the limestone clifi's which form the walls of the canons." 



In New Mexico Professor Cones found the species abundant on the Katon Moun- 

 tains, and Mr. Henshaw writes: — "This, the only Swallow spending tlic suuinicr in 

 New Mexico, or in fact occurring at all, was extremely numerous all through the ])in(-- 

 Avoods, where it finds every convenience for nesting in the multitude of perforated stubs. 

 After the young were on the wing, the birds left the pine-woods and resorted to the tops 

 of the ridges and the open valleys, where, high in mid-air, they were seen busily hunting 

 for insects. On September 8th they were still to be noticed, thougli ihr uKijiuiiy had 

 departed some time before. A few days later and the last had disapiM-arcd." 



Mr. W. Lloyd, in his paper on the birds ol' Western Texas, states that it was seen as 

 a fall migrant in Concho County, being observed and taken on the 1st of Septenil)er, and 

 seen atrain on the 1st of October. It has not been recorded IVoni Tom Green county. 



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