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Valley of Mexico, April 23 (Ferrari-Ferez); Coapa (Tlalpam), March 14 (Ferrari-Perez) ; 

 Chimalapa (Tacubaya), April 2i {Ferrari-Peres); Las Vigas (Jalapa), Sept. (Ferrari- 

 Perez) ; Sola and Juchateiago, Oaxaca, April (31. Trujlllo) ; Topic, June 4< (TF. JB. 

 Richardson); Mesquite, Jalisco, July (IF. B. Bichardson). 



The late Colonel Grayson found this Chimney-Swallow very abundant in May 

 and June at Tepic, where it breeds under the roofs of houses, in the corridors, but 

 it was only seen on the sea-coast in September and October, apparently naigrating. 

 According to Messrs. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, the species also breeds on the 

 Plateau of Mexico, and Mr. Le Strange informed Messrs. Salvin and Godman that 

 it resorts to the houses in the city of Mexico for this purpose. Mr. G. F. Gaumer 

 has obtained it in Ruatan and Cozumel in April. Messrs. Salvin and Godman 

 further remark in the ' Biologia ' : — " In Guatemala we only know it as a migrant, 

 arriving as early as the first days of September, and leaving again in April ; but in the 

 former month adult birds are to be seen with young ones in their first plumage. The 

 only record we have of its occurrence in Costa Pvica is from its name being included in 

 Mr. Zeledon's list of the birds of that country. Prom the State of Panama, however, 

 we have many skins of both adult and young birds. The latest spring record we have 

 of the appearance of this Swallow in this district is the 7th of May, when a bird was 

 seen at sea by Salvin about 100 miles from Colon." 



Mr. Cory records the species from the following islands in the Bahamas : — Mara- 

 guana; Little Inagua ; Great Inagua ; Cay Sal; Anguilla. In the Greater Antilles, 

 according to the same authority, it occurs in Cuba, Grand Cayman, Cayman Brae, 

 Jamaica, Porto Pdco, and St. Croix. In the Lesser Antilles it has been observed in 

 St. Bartholomew, Guadeloupe, Grenada, and Barbados. Sir Edward Newton, in the 

 paper written by himself and Professor Newton on the birds of St. Croix, gives the 

 following note : — "I observed two individuals of this species for the first time, Sept. 13, 

 1858, and I continued to see some almost daily up to my departure from the island on 

 the 28th of that month. They were generally hawking after the manner of our own 

 familiar bird //. rustica, and, I think, could hardly be distinguished from it on the wing. 

 On one occasion I saw several hundreds flying over a lagoon, intending probably to pass 

 the night in the tliick mangroves on its margin. Prom what I could learn, they do not 

 winter in the island, nor are they seen there on their passage northwards in spring." 



Colonel Peilden states that in Barbados it is " an annual and abundant visitor, 

 arriving in the end of August or the loeginning of September, and some remaining till 

 Pebruary ; they haunt the meadows near the shore. On the 10th of September I 

 observed them at Chancery Lane flying by scores, both old and young. I have also 

 many notes of having seen them in numbers in other parts of the island as late as 

 December." 



Mr. Hartcrt writes with regard to its occurrence in tlie island of Cura9ao, where 

 it had also been obtained by Mr. Peters: — " I saw a specimen which had been obtained 

 by Herr Ludwig which undoubtedly belonged to this species. I think it is only a 



