CATALOGUE OF- CANADIAN BIRDS. 569 



/. Young.) Regular summer resident at Toronto, Ont. (/. H. 

 Fleming.) Formerly abundant about London, Ont., but now re- 

 stricted and found on but very few farms, though when protect^ 

 as many as fifty pairs are yet known to breed on one barn. {W. E. 

 Saunders.) Breeds in large colonies at a few barns in the vicinity 

 of Guelph, Ont. Arrives about May 15th, leaves about August 17th. 

 {A. B. Klugh.) An abundant summer resident at Penetanguishene, 

 Ont. {A. F. Young.) 



This is the most abundant, generally distributed and characteristic 

 species of the swallow family throughout the region along the 49th 

 parallel from Pembina to the Rocky mountains. The laying season 

 in this latitude is at its height during the second and third weeks of 

 June. (Coues.) Very abundant summer resident in Manitoba; at 

 Brandon, Fprt EUice and Shoal lake, in 1882, they were breeding in 

 very large numbers, having placed their nests under the eaves and 

 gables of barns and houses. Nesting in great colonies in the cliffs of 

 Great Slave and Artillery lakes. (E. T. Seton.) Rare at Aweme, 

 Man., but noted in large numbers nesting in the banks of the Souris 

 river. (Criddle.) Everywhere in the west an abundant breeding 

 species. Particluarly interesting colonies are to be found along the 

 course of the Assiniboine river, through the Carberry sandhills, 

 where hundreds of nests forming compact masses, covering many 

 square yards, are built against the sheer high banks. (Atkinson.) 



First observed at Indian Head, Sask., on May 24th, 1892; they 

 soon became common and bred in large numbers in suitable places ; 

 this species reached Medicine Hat, Sask., May 22nd, 1894, and im- 

 mediately began to build new and repair old nests ; later they were 

 found breeding under the eaves of all the water-tanks along the 

 Canadian Pacific railway between Medicine Hat and Moose Jaw; 

 at Crane lake they were particularly abundant, building their nests 

 in hundreds under the eaves of the farm buildings; no matter how 

 often the nests were knocked down they were replaced by others; 

 this species was seen in 1895 from Old Wives lakes throughout the 

 whole prairie region across southern Saskatchewan by Wood moun- 

 tain. Frenchman river and the Cypress hills ; in Alberta it was abun- 

 dant along Milk river, where it bred in large communities, as well as 

 along Spur creek. Sage creek and Many Berries creek; a common 

 species in the Bow valley nearly up to Banff in the Rocky Mountains ; 

 very abundant along the Peace river, Alta., in 1903; first seen at 



