migrants than the White-bellied and Violet-green Swallows, which had been going and 

 coming for weeks (F. Stephens). 



" Agua Caliente, San Diego, April (F. Stephens). 



" Santa Cruz. Arrive March and April; common summer resident (J. Skirm). 



" San Jose, April to September (A. L. Farkhurst). 



" Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Abundant summer resident ( W. L. Bryant). 



"Hay wards, April; common (TV. O. Emerson). 



"Stockton, April; common (J. J. Snyder). 



" Berkeley. Common summer resident, April to August (T. S. Palmer). 



" Nicasio. First seen April 20, 1884 (G. A. Allen). 



" Sebastopol, April ; common (F. H. Holmes). 



" Marysville. Arrive March and April (W. F. Peacock). 



"Murphy's, March (J. J. Snyder). 



" Beaverton (A. W. Anthony). 



" Willamette Valley. Abundant in summer, breeding chiefly under eaves (O. B. 

 Johnson) . 



" At Olympia a few flying about the streets in July ; rather scarce north of the 

 Columbia River, 1860 (Cooper). 



" Fort Dalles. Moderately abundant ; makes its appearance in spring simultaneously 

 with Tachycineta bicolor and T. thalassina, but not so numerous, 1860 (Suckley). 



" British Columbia, east of Cascades. Summer resident (John Fannin). 



" Camp Harney, Bendire. One of the most abundant summer residents. 



" Hoffman. Usually abundant in the vicinity of rivers and streams, and even large 

 springs. 



" Bidgway. Noticed along every portion of our route across the Great Basin, especially 

 in the vicinity of rivers or lakes, or at settlements either large or small. 



" Cooper, 1870. In June I saw a flock of these birds busily catching young grass- 

 hoppers on the dry hill-side, where these insects were swarming." 



Dr. A. K. Fisher, writing on the Death Valley Expedition, says : — " This widely 

 distributed species was found breeding in various localities visited by the Expedition. 

 In Nevada Dr. Merriam found a colony breeding in the canon at the lower end of Vegas 

 Wash, May 3, and saw several at the head of the Colorado, May 4 ; he found it common 

 in Bahranagat Valley, May 22-26, and in Oasis Valley, June 1. In Utah he saw 

 a colony which was breeding near St. George, in the Lower Santa Clara Valley, where 

 many nests were found on the red sandstone cliffs a mile or two from the settlement. 



" The Cliff-Swallow was common in Owen's Valley, California. It was seen along the 

 edge of the Lake at Keeler, May 30 to June 1 ; at the mouth of the canon above Lone 

 Bine, June 12 ; and Mr. Stephens found it common at Haway Meadows, May 12-14 ; 

 abundant at Olancha, May 16-23 ; at Ash Creek, May 30 to June 3 ; breeding in the 

 canon at Benton, July 9-10 ; and not common at the Queen Mine, Nevada, July 11-16. 

 Mr. Nelson saw it on Willow Creek, in the Banamint Mountains, the last of May, and 



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