shower was over ; I suppose for the sake of the hath. This may be connected 

 Avith the popular idea that Sn^allow-tenanted barns are safe from lishtnino- for 

 the withdrawal of the Swallows during the storm when some barn has been 

 struck may have engendered the idea of the thunderbolt being a consequence 

 of their absence. 



" Cohoconh. During my visit there, in June 1885, I found the species common. ' 



" Peterhow\ Common {Bev. V. Clementi). 



" Tarker, Addington Co. Summer resident, April 17th to May 10th {J. G. Ewart). 



" Belleville. In 1881, arrived May 9th {Prof. J. Macoun). 



"Kingston. Common {Br. C. K. Clarke). 



" Distribution in Province of Quebec : 



"Montreal. Summer resident, common {W. W. Bunlop). 



" Point de Ilonts. Eai'e, and not known to breed. 3Ir. Comeau shot one, May 29, 



1882 {Br. C. Hart Jlerriam). 

 " Count!/ of Quebec and North to Bake St. John. Summer resident, abundant 

 {J. Neilson). 



" In the list of birds observed by Mr. Jos. M. Macoun at Lake Nustassini, this 

 species is not mentioned. 



" Bistribution in Manitoba and the North-west : 



" Carberry. Rare ; in 1882 it arrived May 11th. Its absence remarked for same 



year on Aug. 30th. In 1881', first noted May 5th. The species did not breed 



about Carberry, possibly for lack of suitable nesting-places. 

 " Winnipeg. Abundant ( IV. B. Hine). 

 " Eastern Manitoba {i. e., I understand, in neighbourhood of Winnipeg and the near 



east). Summer resident, abundant {B. H. Blunter). 

 " South-western Manitoba, near Souris Bicer. I have it noted for this region as 



common. 

 " Qu'Aj-jpelle. Summer visitant, about May 20th, and breeds {Geo. B. Guernsey). 

 " North-icest (by this I understand him to mean the region immediately to the Avest 



of Manitoba). Occurs {Prof. J. Macoun)." 



Professor Elliott Cones, in his paper on the birds of Montana and Dakota, writes : — 

 " I find no specimens of this species entered in my register from Pembina, where, 

 according to my recollection, it was not breeding at the time of my visit, though the 

 family was there well represented by numbers of Clifi' and White-bellied Swallows. 

 Nevertheless, Barn-Swallows were commonly observed during July and August at Aarious 

 points along the line, nearly to the Rocky Mountains. Eligible breeding-places lor tliis 

 species being few and far between in this country, it is correspondingly uiu'Dinnioii, at 

 least in comparison with its numbers in most settled districts. A small colony of the 

 birds which had located for the summer on a small stream west of the Sweetgrass Jlills 



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