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Mr. Beldino-, in his paper on the birds of the Pacific District, gives the following list 

 of the occurrences of the Swallow throughout the region :— 



" Soleclacl. Rare summer resident, arrives about April 4 (i. B.). 



" San Diego. One seen March 26, 1884. A few seen afterwards, especially after 



cool storms with snow in the neighbouring mountains ; a few seen on April 8, 



1885. 

 " Foioay. Usually a common summer resident; none this spring, 1884 {F. E. 



Blaisdell). 

 " San Bernardino. E-are migrant in the vaUey {F. Stephens). 

 " Santa Cruz Island. Breeding (Eenshaio) ; common summer resident, arriving in 



March {Joseph Skirm). 

 " San Jose. Common summer resident, arriving at the end of March and beginning 



of April (7F. L. Farkhurst). 

 ''Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Tolerably common summer resident {W. B. 



Bryant). 

 " Eaytoards. Common summer resident, arriving in March {TF. 0. Emerson). 

 " BerJceley. Tolerably common summer resident, first arriving in March and April, 



common in May {T. S. Fahner). 

 " Nicasio. March 31, 1884, first seen (C. A. Allen). 

 " Olema. Common summer resident {A. M. Ingersoll). 

 '' Murphy s. March to September {J. J. §' J. F. Snyder). 

 " Stockton. March 19, 1870, arrived and began to repair their old nests (Dr. Eud- 



son) ; rare in 1885, arrived March 17 {J- J- Snyder). 

 " Central California. March to the beginning of October ; breeding up to about 



3000 feet {L. B.). 

 " Soqiiel near Santa Cruz. Nesting; Sept. 14, young half-fledged {W. 0. Emerson). 

 " Marysville. Common summer resident ( TF. F. Peacock). 

 " Sehastopol. Common summer resident, arriving in March [F. E. Eolmes). 

 '' Beaverton, Or. Occasionally seen (A. W. Anthony). 

 " Walla Walla. Arrive in May ; breeds {Er. Williams). 

 " Camp Earney, Bendire. A few pairs breed about the buildings of the Post ; they 



arrive about the same time (May 1), but remain much longer than the Cliff- 

 Swallow, which leaves about the middle of August. 

 " Although inhabiting the same localities as the Cliff-Swallow, everywhere much less 

 numerous. Several nests were found in caverns on the eastern side of the 

 Ruby Mountains. It arrived at Carson, April 8, 1868 [Bidgway). 

 " Cape Flattery Light. Arrived May 7, 1885 {A. Simpson). 

 " Whidley Island, W.I. Arrived May 24, 1886 (Lawrence Wessel)." 



The following note occurs in Dr. A. K. Tisher's memoir on the Death Valley 

 Expedition: — "The Barn-Swallow was found nowhere common except in Owen's 



