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visitor from the noitli, because Peters tells us that it was numerous at the end of 

 August, while it was so rare during my visit that I only saw a few in the town, and was 

 not able to procure a specimen." Cassin mentions a specimen from Cayenne in the 

 Philadelphia Museum, and the late Mr. Henry "VThitely procured a specimen at Bartica 

 Grove, in British Guiana, in April, and met with it on Uoraima at 3500 feet. He also 

 procured a specimen at Aunai in March. 



Mr. E. L. Layard observed the species at Para, but only in the town, where it 

 kept about the church-towers. Natterer procured four specimens at Maral^itanas in 

 April. Three specimens were procured by Mr. H. H. Smitli at Corumba, in Matto- 

 Grosso, on the 23rd of March. Professor Baird records tT\o specimens from the 

 Vermejo River in Paraguay. It is not included in Sclater and Hudson's ' Argentine 

 Ornithology,' but Mr. Graham Kerr says that during the expedition to the Lower 

 Pilcomayo he observed immense numbers of this Swallow at Puerto Juarez Celmen, 

 on the Eio Parana, opposite Corrientes. Dr. Piohde obtained two young birds on 

 January 12th ; and Count von Berlepsch seems to hint that the species may breed 

 in Paraguay, but this is not likely to be the case, in our opinion. 



The Philadelphia Museum possesses a specimen from Bolivia, and the late 

 Mr. Henry "VA'hitely procured specimens at Cosnipata in Peru, and Dr. Taczanowski 

 says that he has received numerous specimens from the vicinity of Lima. 



Dr. Taczanowski also says that the American Chimney-Swallow is spread over tlie 

 greater part of Eastern Siberia, and is common in the neighbourhood of Irkutsk, on 

 Lake Baikal, and over the whole of Dauria ; according to Mr. Godlewski it arrives in 

 the latter country during the latter part of May, and migrates towards the end of 

 August. Dr. Eadde gives a fall list of the dates on which he observed the species in 

 the Baikal country, Avhere he says that the second broods sometimes remain till tlie 

 beginning of September. We do not reproduce the whole of his note, as considerable 

 doubt exists as to the correct determination of the Swallows in Eastern Siberia. 



In the ' Catalogue of Birds ' we identified some specimens from Burmah and Cochin 

 China as being identical with the true H. erijthrogastra ivom. North America, and we are 

 glad to see that Mr. Gates confirms this identification. He writes : — " The only specimens 

 of this species I have seen witliin Indian limits are two procured by myself in Eebruary. 

 one at TounEjoo and one at Pea'u. The former is adult and the latter voung. There 

 are two typical adult specimens from Cochin China in the British ]\Iuseum." 



In its habits the American Chimney-Swallow resembles the species of thr old 

 World. One of the best accounts of the Inrd appears to be that of Professor Elliott 

 Cones in the 'Birds of the Colorado Valley': — "In the case of this Swallow, whose 

 name is a ' household word ' alike with the learned and the ignorant of oruiihology, 

 it is unnecessary to rehearse the items which have formed staples of biograpiiy since 

 Wilson wrote truly 'that the light of heaven itself, tlie sky. ihc trees, or any otlier 

 common objects of Nature, arc not better known than the SwaUows. We welcome their 

 first appearance with delight, as the faithful liarliiiigers oi' llowery sjjrini^- and ruiUly 



