" Millbrooh. Summer resident, abundant. Noted first lltli April (1885) (Geo. 



Sootheran). 

 " Peterborough. Common (Rev. Vincent Clement i). 

 " Yarker, Addihgtm Co. Summer resident, abundant. April 27th to May lltb 



(John J. Swart). 

 "Kingston. Abundant (Br. C. K. Clarke). 



" Distribution in the Province of Quebec. 



"Montreal. Summer resident, abundant (W. W. Dunlop). 



" Point cle Monts. A small colony nested in the deserted Hudson's Bay Trading 



Post at Godbout this year (1882) (Dr. C. Hart llerriam). 

 " County of Quebec and north to Lake St. John. Summer resident, abundant 

 (John Neilson). 



''Distribution in Labrador. 



" Verrill reports it breeding in large numbers, July 15th, 1861, on Anticosti (L. M. 

 Turner, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1885, p. 239). 



"Distribution in Manitoba and the North-west. 



" Carberrg. About Carberry and on tbe Big Plain I noted it only as a migrant; 

 apparently there were no suitable building sites. Aug. 26th, 1882 : Swarm of 

 Cliff-Swallows migrating to-day, living east. 

 " Turtle Mountain, in Southern Manitoba. Here in 1882, on 20th Mav, I saw 



several apparently just arrived from the south. 

 " Brandon. At this place on 25th May, 1882, I saw a number of the birds and 54 



nests under one high eave, 50 feet long, facing the south. 

 " Partage la Prairie. Common summer resident (C. W. Nash). 

 " Winnipeg. Abundant summer resident ( W. L. Mine). Common (P. M. 



Hunter). 

 " Shoal Lake, in Western Manitoba. I have noted, June 4th, 1884, Cliff-Swallows 



nesting ; one had in gizzard water-beetles and flies. 

 " Assessippi, or Shell River, Western Manitoba. Cliff-Swallows nesting in 



abundance. 

 " Fort Ellice. Abundant, breeding. 

 " QuAppelle. Summer visitant; arrives about 10th May; breeds (Geo. F. 



Guernsey). 

 " North-west. Abundant (Prof. John Macoun). 



" This is the most abundant of the Swallows that are found in the North-west, 

 although its distribution there is somewhat erratic, and evidently governed by the 

 presence of suitable places for nesting. Apparently, a high eave or overhanging wall, 

 in a sheltered valley, near w r ater, and with a southerly aspect, are the favourite sur- 

 roundings of this bird, and when all these circumstances are combined, the place is 

 usually encrusted with the long bottle-shaped nests, and the welkin resounds with the 



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