APPENDIX 



TO THE 



GENUS STELGIDOPTERYX. 



STELGIDOPTERYX SERRIPENNIS \antea, p. 635]. 



Add :— 



Stelgidopteryx serripennis, Sharpe & Wyatt, Monogr. Hirund. pt. xiii. (1890) ; 

 Belding, Occ. Papers Calif. Acad. ii. p. 193 (1890) ; Mearns, Auk, vii. p. 48 

 (1890); Loomis, t. c. p. 125; Cherrie, t. c. p. 335; id. Auk, ix. p. 22 (1892); 

 Scott, t. c. p. 213; Ridgw. t. c. p. 307; Attwater, t. c. p. 310; Lawr. t. c. 

 p. 356; Hatch, B. Minnesota, p. 356 (1892); Pisher, N. Amer. Faun. uo. 7, 

 pt, 2, p. 112 (1893); Thompson, Auk, x. p. 50 (1893); White, i.e. p. 227; 

 Brimley, t. c. p. 243 ; Sargent, t. c. p. 569. 



The following additional notes on this species have appeared since our article was 

 published. 



Mr. Thompson records the species from the vicinity of Lake "Winnipeg, on the 

 authority of Mr. Hine. Mr. S. E. White found one of these Swallows dead on Mackinac 

 Island in July, but he neA'er succeeded in procuring another example. Professor 

 Bidgway noticed its arrival near Washington, D.C., on the 8th of April, 1893. In 

 Minnesota Dr. Hatch states that it arrives about the same time as Cotile riparia, and it 

 is " no less common in some sections. Dr. Hvoslef reports it as one of the very common 

 Swallows, arriving at Lanesboro' on the 19th of April in 1881." 



Mr. H. B. Sargent records the meeting of the species at Shelter Island, X.Y., 

 as follows : — " While collecting with Mr. W. W. Worthington of Shelter Island, 

 June 3, 1893, I found a nest of the Bough-winged Swallow containing four much 

 incubated eggs. The nest was placed in a bank about forty feet high, on the shore ; 

 it looked like an old Bank-Swallow's burrow. It was two feet from the top of the 

 bank and twenty-seven inches deep. The chamber the nest was in w r as twelve inches in 

 diameter, and was completely filled with dried sea-grasses on which the eggs were laid. 



" I shot the female, and as it fell in the water the male came up and tried to help 

 its disabled mate, at the same time uttering a most plaintive cry." 



Mr. Brimley says that in r\orth Carolina the species has " apparently been getting 



