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rarer near Raleigh, or else lias found nesting-places more suited to its needs than the 

 old ones, for it has deserted its old haunts almost entirely, and, instead of heing our 

 commonest Swallow, it is much more nearly our rarest one." Mr. Loornis, in his paper 

 on the summer birds of Pickens' County, S. Carolina, states that it was tolerably 

 common, and was seen daily " hawking for insects over the bottom lands along the 

 Oolenay." 



Mr. Attwater says that the Rough-winged Swallow is a " common migrant" at San 

 Antonio in Texas. Mr. Scott also records it as a migrant in the Caloosahatchie Region 

 of Florida. 



In Arizona, Mr. Mearns states that it breeds on the lower edge of the pine belt. 

 Near Gray's Harbour, in Washington County, Mr. Lawrence records it as a summer 

 resident, but not very common. 



In the memoir on the Death Valley Expedition occurs the following note by 

 Dr. A. K. Fisher: — "The Rough-winged Swallow was tolerably common in a number 

 of the desert valleys, where it was a summer resident. It was first seen at Ash Meadows, 

 Nevada, March 10, and in Vegas Wash, near the bend of the Colorado River, March 10- 

 13. A specimen was secured at Hot Springs, in Panamint Valley, April 22, and 

 Mr. Nelson observed a few migrants along Willow Creek, in the Panamint Mountains, 

 the last of May. Dr. Merriam saw this Swallow at Saratoga Springs, in Death Valley, 

 April 26 ; at the bend of the Colorado River, May 4 ; in the Valley of the Virgin, near 

 Bunkerville, Nevada, May 8 ; and in Pahranagat Valley, Nevada, where it was tolerably 

 common and doubtless breeding, May 22-26. He found it common where Beaverdam 

 Creek joins the Virgin in north-western Arizona, May 9-10, and the commonest Swallow 

 in the Santa Clara Valley, Utah, May 11-15. In Owen's Valley a pair was seen about a 

 pond at Lone Pine, June 8, and others were observed at Big Pine, June 10. At Furnace 

 Creek, Death Valley, several were secured about the reservoir June 19-21, and a number 

 were seen in Kern River Valley, June 22-23." 



Mr. Belding, in his synopsis of the birds of the Pacific coast of North America, gives 

 the records as follows : — 



" Poway. Usually common in spring (F. G. Blaisdell). 



" San Jose. Common summer resident, arriving in March (Parkhurst). 



" San Bernardino. Rare migrant through the valley (F. Stephens). 



" Agua Caliente. Seen in March (F. Stephens). 



"Southern California. Occurs commonly (Henshaw). 



" Santa Cruz. Common summer resident (S/clrm) ; breeds (Ingersoll). 



" Contra Costa County. Summer resident ( W. G. Bryant). 



" Calaveras County (L. B.). 



" Sacramento. Common, June and July (Rhlgway). 



"Found in California as far north as Columbia river (Newberry). 



" Common about the sandy cliffs and islets of this coast. It arrived near the 

 Columbia river in May and remained until the middle of August, 1860 ( Cooper). 



