in "Western Missouri, arriving about the 15th of April, and breeding. Mr. Beckham, 

 in his essay on the Birds of Bayou Sara in Louisiana, says : — " The Rough-winged 

 Swallows, which arrived in March, were present in force, and were breeding in holes in 

 the banks along Alexander's Creek, where the Kingfishers were also nesting." 



Mr. Dresser, in his account of the Birds of Texas, writes : — " At Eagle Pass, the 

 first of these birds I noticed arriving from the South I saw on the 21st of February. 

 Both there and near San Antonio they are very common during the summer, breeding 

 in the towns, making their nests under the eaves and in holes in the old walls, and 

 laying pure white eggs ; the first of which, that I got, were taken at San Antonio on the 

 25th April." 



Mr. Nehrling says that it is a very abundant summer resident in Texas. It often 

 nests under the roofs of walks, and on old buildings in Houston, but is more a companion 

 of the Bank-Swallow [Cotlle riparia) on the high banks on Buffalo-Bayou and Galveston 

 Bay. In South-western Texas Mr. N. C. Brown states that he only observed two 

 specimens on the 3rd and 1th of March. 



Mr. Brewster, in a paper on the Birds of Western North California, says that it 

 was "the characteristic Swallow of the valley region, common almost everywhere 

 throughout the settled country up to about 2500 feet, and nesting in ledges and clay 

 banks formed by railroad-cuttings or the erosion of streams." 



Mr. Belding writes : — " This bird arrived at Murphy's on March 15th, 1877, and 

 remained till May 3rd, or probably later. They constituted only a fraction of the 

 multitude of Swallows of the place, and were, perhaps, altogether not more than two 

 dozen in number. I have not seen it elsewhere." 



Mr. Hoffman, in his paper on the Birds of Xevada, observes :— 



" Dr. Cooper found this species as early as February 27th, and Mr. Bidgway observed 

 it in April at Carson City, where it was the most abundant species of the family. 

 I noticed these birds also along the banks of the Humboldt Biver, north of Battle 

 Mountain, during the last days of May, where they are probably summer residents. 

 They buiid in burrows in the sandy banks, the openings leading to the nests being 

 from one to two feet below the upper edge of the bank, similar in this respect to 

 those of C. riparia." 



In Arizona Mr. Brewster observed it commonly and breeding:: but about Tuczon 

 Mr. Herbert Brown found it rather rare, arriving about the middle of March. Messrs. 

 Allen and Brewster state that they first observed the Bough-winged Swallow about the 

 10th of May in Colorado, and that it was not uncommon later. At Pueblo it was 

 plentiful along the streams, according to Mr. Beckham. Mr. Drew states that it 

 breeds in the plains of Colorado up to 7000 feet. 



Dr. Merrill, writing from Port Klamath, Oregon, says : — "A few pairs breed in the 

 banks of the streams near the Port, but there are few suitable places, as the edges of the 

 streams are usually low and grassy. Nests, examined June 18, contained half-Hedged 

 young; the burrows were about two feet in length, and were much larger than those 



